Book
Growing Up in Coal Country
- Published
- 1996
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Pages
- 128
- Words
- 17828
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.8
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 1110L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–17
Using oral histories, archival sources, and photographs, Susan Campbell Bartoletti reconstructs childhood in Pennsylvania coal country around the turn of the twentieth century, including dangerous work, immigrant family life, prejudice, labor organizing, hardship, and community.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780395778470
- ISBN-10
- 0395778476
Tags
ALSC NotablesFamily Life-Jobs for YouthHistory-American/U.S. HistoryMiningNonfictionPeople-ChildrenPeople-Immigrants/EmigrantsSocial Issues-Civic/Economic ProgressUnited States-Pennsylvania