This would be a great book for elementary or older to show them how at their age, children used to be responsible for a lot. Also show them how the living conditions were very much different than now.
This would be a great book for elementary or older to show them how at their age, children used to be responsible for a lot. Also show them how the living conditions were very much different than now.
pickHistorical Fiction
Rebecca is a 10 year old girl who helps support her family by working all day in a cotton mill. Their pay is going to be cut and her friends want to protest but trouble makers are usually dismissed
The 10 year old helps supply for her family. She can‘t take a pay cut which has been talked about at the cotton mill.
pick-historical fiction
Rebecca is 10 but works all day long in a cotton mill. There is a protest that Rebecca‘s idol wants to put on for their pay at the cotton mill. Will she have the courage to join?
pickThe setting of this story was in #Lowell, #Massachusetts 1832. It's centered around the lives of the #cottonmill girls and their harsh working conditions in the factory. The story is really engaging, especially when the murder trial in the story was based on an actual murder of a mill girl and its subsequent trial in 1833.
#historicalfiction #murdermystery #19thcentury #industrialrevolution #millgirl
