• Growing Up in Coal Country - Ingram
1 1

Clarion Books, 1999-27-09

Growing Up in Coal Country

Growing Up in Coal Country

Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Author

Paperback

9780395979143

$8.99 USD
$0.00 USD $8.99 USD
Sale Sold out
Shipping calculated at checkout.
0 available (backorder)
Through interviews, newspaper accounts, and other original sources, Bartoletti pieced together a picture of life in the Pennsylvania coal mines at the turn of the century.
  • Make Way for Books Annotation

Keywords and Themes: City & Town Life • Emigration • History • Immigration & Refugees • JNF025200 • JNF025210 • JNF031000 • JNF053240 • Juvenile Nonfiction • Lifestyles • Social Topics • United States - 19th Century • United States - 20th Century

Age Range • 10-12

Pages • 128

Subjects • Immigrants • History • Pennsylvania • Coal miners • Coal mines and mining • Anthracite coal industry • Child labor

Categories • Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 19th Century • Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century • Juvenile Nonfiction | Lifestyles | City & Town Life • Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Emigration, Immigration & Refugees

Inspired by her in-laws' recollections of working in coal country, Susan Campbell Bartoletti has gathered the voices of men, women, and children who immigrated to and worked in northeastern Pennsylvania at the turn of the century. The story that emerges is not just a story of long hours, little pay, and hazardous working conditions; it is also the uniquely American story of immigrant families working together to make a new life for themselves. It is a story of hardship and sacrifice, yet also of triumph and the fulfillment of hopes and dreams.

View full details