The Streetcar Riots (The American Adventure #28)

By Susan Martins Miller

Book Overview

A riot breaks out in Minneapolis, just as Richard and Anna Allerton are walking to an Easter dinner at their aunt and uncle's home. The city's streetcar drivers are on strike, and thousands of people have filled the streets. Angry words grow louder and suddenly a group of men overturns a streetcar. Richard and Anna are separated from the rest of their family. How will they manage to get home safely? And when this latest outbreak of violence between workers and business owners makes Uncle Charles and Uncle Enoch even angrier at each other, what can the family do to settle its differences?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577482905
• ISBN13: 9781577482901
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7