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Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 27
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton regrets that he is too busy to celebrate Christmas in New Mouse City and wishes he could fly to Santa's toy factory.
2) Factory girl
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In order to save her family's farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a factory in the south of China. There she finds arduous and degrading conditions and contempt for her minority (Uyghur) background. Sustained by her bond with other Uyghur girls, Roshen is resolved to endure all to help her family and ultimately her people"--
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Luli and Yun, raised in an orphanage to age sixteen, work together in a factory until Yun, pregnant, disappears and Luli must confront the dangers of the outside world to find her. Includes facts about China's One-Child Policy and its effects.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Left-handers are creative. Left-handers are geniuses. Half of all cats are lefties! (Or so says Stink.) But Judy is a righty... and Judy is feeling left out. Tomorrow is Left Handers Day, and Stink and Dad, the southpaws in the Moody family, are celebrating at the pretzel factory. Judy is allowed to come along on one condition: she has to be left-handed the whole entire day. It's on!
Author
Publisher
Santa Monica Press Teen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Mattie and the Machine is a fictionalized yet historically accurate account of Margaret E. Knight's fight to obtain recognition as a 19th century female inventor (she would eventually be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006). Fifteen-year-old Mattie is a mechanic at Columbia Paper's bag factory. With sales booming after the Civil War, her boss expands the formerly all-female workforce by hiring his old Army comrades, including...
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