- Textile Workers' Strike, Lawrence, Mass., 1912, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Strikes and lockouts, Survival
Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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Earnest, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Katherine Paterson
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 275
- Publisher
- Clarion Books, HarperCollins Publishers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780547488752
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Katherine Paterson is the author of more than 40 books, including 18 novels for children and young people. She has twice won the Newbery Medal, for Bridge to Terabithia in 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved in 1981. The Patersons have four grown children and seven grandchildren. Katherine currently resides in Vermont with her faithful dog, Pixie.
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