An adaptation of Upton Sinclair's classic in which a young Lithuanian immigrant, hoping to create a good life for himself and his family in the early 1900s, is discouraged by the shocking conditions he encounters as a worker in the Chicago stockyards. Includes reviews questions.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: working class, juvenile fiction, lithuanian americans, stockyards, immigrants, fiction, historical fiction, chicago (ill.), history, 20th century, juvenile fiction, fiction, historical fiction