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Lyddie Read-Alikes

Read-alikes for Lyddie by Katherine Paterson

LyddieThanks to Sarah Stippich from the Philadelphia Free Library for her PUBYAC Listserv post on books for children on organized labor. This list includes both nonfiction and fiction. Here is her list with a few additions of my own:

Adler, David A. A Picture Book of Cesar Chavez.

Auch, Mary Jane. Ashes of Roses.

Bartoletti, Susan. Kids on Strike!

Bartoletti, Susan. The Journal of Finn Reardon (My Name is America).

Brown, Monica. Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez/La Historia de Dolores Huerta y Cesar Chavez.

Burgan, Michael. Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor.

Cohn, Diana. Si, Se Puede/Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in L.A.

Cronin, Doreen. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type.

Currie, Stephen. We Have Marched Together: The Working Children’s Crusade.

Doctorow, Cory. For the Win.

Freedman, Russell. Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor.

Gourley, Catherine. Good Girl Work: Factories, Sweatshops, and How Women Changed Their Role in the American Workforce.

Greenwood, Barbara. Factory Girl.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Uprising.

Hopkinson, Deborah. Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker.

Krull, Kathleen. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez.

Lyon, George Ella. Which Side Are You On? The Story of a Song.

Markel, Michelle. Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909.

Marrin, Albert. Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy.

McCully, Emily Arnold. The Bobbin Girl.

Nagara, Innosanto. A Is for Activist.  (board book)

Nelson, Scott Reynolds. Ain’t Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry.

Otfinoski, Steven. The Child Labor Reform Movement: an Interactive History Adventure.

Paterson, Katherine. Bread and Roses, Too.

Robinet, Harriette Gillem. Missing from Haymarket Square.

Soto, Gary. Jessie DeLaCruz: a Profile of a United Farm Worker.

Waddell, Martin. Farmer Duck.

Winthrop, Elizabeth. Counting on Grace.

Also, check out this website “Solidarity Holiday” – http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/childrens-books-for-solidarity-holiday/

By Penny Peck, San Jose State Univ.

Published on Jan 6, 2014
Posted by: pennypeck
Tags: Katherine Paterson, Lyddie
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