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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
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