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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"For decades, no one has gone into Willy Wonka's chocolate factory...and no one has come out. Finally, after finding the much sought-after golden tickets, five lucky children from around the world will be the first to walk through its doors after all this time. Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee, and our hero, Charlie Bucket, are in for the ride of their lives, as the fantastic chocolate factory is not as it seems, and is...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 19
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
It is up to the Thea sisters to investigate when an Ecuadorian chocolate factory known for its environmental practices begins malfunctioning and the owner suspects sabotage.
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, Lu Si-Yan's uncle sells her to a rich family who expect her to work as their servant until she is old enough to marry their son, but when she runs away things only get worse.
4) Lyddie
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2004, c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
Español
Description
Trustworthy, kind, and poor Charlie Bucket, the hero of the story, and greedy Augustus Gloop, spoiled Veruca Salt, gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, and TV-addict Mike Teve have amazing adventures in a chocolate factory.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Children's Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Description
Provides a detailed account of the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers in 1911, and examines the impact of this event on the nation's working conditions and labor laws.
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