Fourteen-year-old Pat McFarlane, forced to go to work as a breaker boy in a Pennsylvania coal mine after the death of his father, wonders how his already poverty-stricken family will survive when the miners, spurred on by unionist John Mitchell, call a strike in 1902.
year: 1988, 2002
call number/section: 1000
subjects: coal mines and mining, fiction, strikes and lockouts, labor movement, pennsylvania, history, 1865-, fiction, historical fiction
Editions
Perez, Norah A
Houghton Mifflin (1988)
After his father's death, fourteen-year-old Pat is forced to go to work in the coal mines that dominate his Pennsylvania town and becomes involved in the big mine workers' strike of 1902.
Schools: 1
Perez, Norah A
Golden Triangle Books (2002)
Fourteen-year-old Pat McFarlane, forced to go to work as a breaker boy in a Pennsylvania coal mine after the death of his father, wonders how his already poverty-stricken family will survive when the miners, spurred on by unionist John Mitchell, call a strike in 1902.
Schools: 3