1886
A01=Harriette Gillem Robinet
ages 8-12
Author_Harriette Gillem Robinet
Category=YFB
Chicago
child labor
Dinah Bell
eight-hour day
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factory workers
fair labor
historical fiction
industrialization
kids books about industrialization
labor laws
middle grade
Missing from haymarket square
Scott O'Dell Award
unionize
unions
Product details
- ISBN 9780689854903
- Weight: 137g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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CHICAGO, 1886. Twelve-year-old Dinah Bell is too young to be working twelve-hour days. But to the factory and mill owners, age doesn't matter. In fact nothing seems to matter to them except how much work gets done. But Dinah and workers like her have many concerns: Food is scarce, wages are small, and hope seems out of reach.
Dinah's father knows there must be a better way -- that's why he and eight thousand others are planning to march for an eight-hour day. But when her father is taken prisoner for helping to plan the march, Dinah is desperate to rescue him. As the march gives way to a terrifying riot, Dinah faces constant danger and a persistent question: What will become of her family if she does not set her father free?
Dinah's father knows there must be a better way -- that's why he and eight thousand others are planning to march for an eight-hour day. But when her father is taken prisoner for helping to plan the march, Dinah is desperate to rescue him. As the march gives way to a terrifying riot, Dinah faces constant danger and a persistent question: What will become of her family if she does not set her father free?
Harriette Gillem Robinet was born in Washington, DC, and spent her childhood summers in Arlington, Virginia where her mother’s father had been a slave under General Robert E. Lee. She attended the College of New Rochelle in New York and received graduate degrees in microbiology from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. The author of several award-winning books for children, Ms. Robinet makes her home in Oak Park, Illinois.
