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The Bobbin Girl
The Bobbin Girl | Emily Arnold McCully
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A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
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The Bobbin Girl | Emily Arnold McCully

This would be a great book for elementary or older to show them how at their age, children used to be responsible for a lot. Also show them how the living conditions were very much different than now.

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Rebecca is a 10 year old girl who helps support her family by working all day in a cotton mill. Their pay is going to be cut and her friends want to protest but trouble makers are usually dismissed

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The mill girls protesting

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The 10 year old helps supply for her family. She can‘t take a pay cut which has been talked about at the cotton mill.

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Rebecca is 10 but works all day long in a cotton mill. There is a protest that Rebecca‘s idol wants to put on for their pay at the cotton mill. Will she have the courage to join?