Books for Kids (Nonfiction)


Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
Growing Up in Coal Country
(Houghton Mifflin Co, 1996), ISBN: 0395778476, 127 pages.
Ages 9-12.


Cahn, Rhoda & William
No Time for School, No Time for Play: The Story of Child Labor in America
(New York: Julian Messner, 1972), ASIN: 0671325515.
Out of print, but available in libraries and bookstores dealing in out of print books.


Colman, Penny
Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children
(Connecticut: Millbrook, 1995), ASIN: 1562944029.
Elementary.
Out of print, but available in libraries and bookstores dealing in out of print books.


Currie, Stephen
We Have Marched Together: The Working Children's Crusade
(Lerner Publications Company, April 1997), ISBN: 0822517337.
Ages 9-12.


Gay, Kathlyn
Child Labor: A Global Crisis
(Millbrook Press, 1998), ISBN: 0761303685, 128 pages.
Young adult.


Gourley, Catherine
Good Girl Work: Factories, Sweatshops, and How Women Changed Their Role in the American Workforce
( Millbrook Press, 1999), ISBN: 0761309519, 96 pages.
Young adult.


Kielburger, Craig, with contributor Kevin Major
Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves that Children Can Change the World
(New York: Harper Perennial Library, 1999), ISBN: 0060930659, 336 pages.


Kuklin, Susan
Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery
(New York: Henry Holt & Company, Inc, 1998); ISBN: 080505459, 144 pages.


Moffard, Juliet H., ed.
Child Labor in America
(Carlisle, MA: Perspectives on History Series, Discovery Enterprises, Ltd., 1997), ISBN: 1878668986, 64 pages.
K-12 level.
Documentary history of child1 labor, basic.


Newman, Shirlee P.
Child Slavery in Modern Times (Watts Library: History of Slavery)
(
Franklin Watts, Incorporated, 2000); ISBN: 0531116964, 64 pages.
Ages 9-12.

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