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=Books which might be useful:= From //School Library Journal//: //Starred Review.// Grade 5-8–Inspired by Lewis Hines haunting photograph of a French Canadian girl in Vermont in 1910, Winthrops compelling story vividly captures the mill experience. Grace Forcier and her friend Arthur, both 12 and the best readers in the mill school, are forced to suspend their educations to doff bobbins for their mothers frames in the spinning room. While this is difficult for left-handed Grace, Arthur is desperate to escape the stuffy, sweaty, linty, noisy factory. Miss Lesley, their teacher, helps them write a letter to the National Child Labor Committee about underage kids, as young as eight, working in their mill. Grace understands the dilemma a response will cause. If the children dont work, the families wont have enough money to survive. Lewis Hine is the answer to the letter. He comes and photographs the mill rats, as the kids are called; no one will believe the conditions without pictures. Arthur, however, can wait no longer to carry out his escape plan. In a horrifying scene, he jams his right hand into the gearbox of the frame, painfully mangling it and losing two fingers. Miss Lesleys interference causes her to be fired, and she encourages Grace to be the substitute teacher, leaving readers with a sense that she will escape the mill and have a better life. Much information on early photography and the workings of the textile mills is conveyed, and history and fiction are woven seamlessly together in this beautifully written novel. Readers wont soon forget Grace.//–Connie Tyrrell Burns, Mahoney Middle School, South Portland, ME// Copyright © Reed Business Information
 * //Counting on Grace// by Elizabeth Winthrop**

//A wreath for Emmett Till// by Marilyn Nelson [|//Emmett Till link on Amazon.com//]

=Things to explore on the LOC Webpage or through the Library=
 * The Digital Reference Section offers a 1-hour Research Orientation on the 2nd Wednesday of every month from 11:00 to 12:00 (EST). It is limited to 15 people. Register at [|www.loc.gov/rr/program/orientation_form.php]
 * //Teaching Primary Sources// homepage: []
 * Newsletter archive of the Teaching Primary Sources program of the Library of Congress: []

=Movies= //Iron Jawed Angels// Movie about Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt and the suffragist movement. Ask Becky Firth for details...

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