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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without the fancy dresses and servants they were accustomed to on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. When Mama falls ill and a strike for better working conditions...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Language
English
Description
Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. All day long he hears, click, clack, moo. Click, clack, moo. Click, clack, moo. But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 730L
Language
English
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Description
Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: his crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. Blue needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking -- each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise up "in dubious battle" against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own, stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike springs from his tragic idealism, from the "courage never to submit or yield."
Author
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
The second novel from the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan. A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father; and Viv, who fell in love with Hank's...
Author
Series
Postcards from Pullman volume 3
Language
English
Description
Olivia Mott wonders what will become of her and Fred DeVault's growing affection for each other when Fred becomes the local delegate to the national convention of the American Railway Union representing delegates who have voted for a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars.
15) Full time
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Single mother Julie needs reliable transit to get to work. When a national strike breaks out, her daily routine becomes a gauntlet in this kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life in a ruthless society.
Author
Publisher
ILR Press
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Novelist Barbara Kingsolver began her writing career with Holding the Line. It is the story of how women's lives were transformed by an eighteen-month strike against the Phelps-Dodge Copper Corporation. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, the story is partly oral history and partly social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community.
18) Kids on strike!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.