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Factory Girl | 
 enlarge | Author: Barbara Greenwood
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 404237
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 136
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 1553376498
EAN: 9781553376491
ASIN: 1553376498
Publication Date: February 1, 2007
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Product Description
At the dingy, overcrowded Acme Garment Factory, Emily Watson stands for eleven hours a day clipping threads from blouses. Every time the boss passes, he shouts at her to snip faster. But if Emily snips too fast, she could ruin the garment and be docked pay. If she works too slowly, she will be fired. She desperately needs this job. Without the four dollars a week it brings, her family will starve. When a reporter arrives, determined to expose the terrible conditions in the factory, Emily finds herself caught between the desperate immigrant girls with whom she works and the hope of change. Then tragedy strikes, and Emily must decide where her loyalties lie. Emily's fictional experiences are interwoven with non-fiction sections describing family life in a slum, the fight to improve social conditions, the plight of working children then and now, and much more. Rarely seen archival photos accompany this story of the past as only Barbara Greenwood can tell it.
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A beautifully written weaving of historical fact and fiction October 17, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This was a fantastic book. It is reminiscent of the American Girl Series in that the fact-based fictional character is an independent, progressively-minded girl of her time period, and in the way historical facts and photos are woven in with the fictional text. However, it is written in a much more sophisticated manner than the American Girl books, and provides more depth of information. We have read several of Barbara Greenwood's other books as well, and they are similarly beautifully written and illustrated.
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