On our way to Oyster Bay :
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TextSeries: CitizenKidPublisher: Toronto, ON : Kids Can Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781771383257; 1771383259Other title: Mother Jones and her march for children's rightsSubject(s): Jones, Mother, 1837-1930 -- Juvenile fiction | Jones, Mother, 1837-1930 -- Fiction | Child labor -- United States -- History -- Juvenile fiction | Child labor -- History -- FictionGenre/Form: Biographies.LOC classification: PZ7.K9490155 | On 2016Summary: Though eight-year-old Aidan and his friend Gussie want to go to school, like many other children in 1903, they work twelve hours, six days a week, at a cotton mill in Pennsylvania instead. So when the millworkers decide to go on strike, the two friends join the picket line. Maybe now life will change for them. But when a famous labor reformer named Mother Jones comes to hear of the millworkers demands, she tells them they need to do more than just strike. Troubled by all she had seen, Mother Jones wanted to end child labor. But what could she do? Why, organize a children's march and bring the message right to President Theodore Roosevelt at his summer home in Oyster Bay, of course!
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Books | Main Library Junior Nonfiction (JN) | JN 323.352 .K963 2016 | Available | 24748 |
"Edited by Stacey Roderick"--Page 32.
Though eight-year-old Aidan and his friend Gussie want to go to school, like many other children in 1903, they work twelve hours, six days a week, at a cotton mill in Pennsylvania instead. So when the millworkers decide to go on strike, the two friends join the picket line. Maybe now life will change for them. But when a famous labor reformer named Mother Jones comes to hear of the millworkers demands, she tells them they need to do more than just strike. Troubled by all she had seen, Mother Jones wanted to end child labor. But what could she do? Why, organize a children's march and bring the message right to President Theodore Roosevelt at his summer home in Oyster Bay, of course!