Factory Girl

by Barbara Greenwood

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553376498
• ISBN13: 9781553376491
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.9" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Good book

I got this for my 8 year old granddaughter. She read it straight through without putting it down. She had never thought a book could be so real.

A beautifully written weaving of historical fact and fiction

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.