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1) Threads
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.
2) Iqbal
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--
They only wanted to make some money during the dry season to help their impoverished family; instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods Amadou and his younger...
4) Coal River
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this vibrant new historical novel, the acclaimed author of The Plum Tree and What She Left Behind explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town... As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant...
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