On Our Way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and Her March for Children's Rights

by Monica Kulling

Book Overview

Though eight-year-old Aidan and his friend Gussie want to go to school, like many other children in 1903, they work twelve hours, six days a week, at a cotton mill in Pennsylvania instead. So when the millworkers decide to go on strike, the two friends join the picket line. Maybe now life will change for them. But when a famous labor reformer named Mother Jones comes to hear of the millworkers' demands, she tells them they need to do more than just...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771383259
• ISBN13: 9781771383257
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 5