Avi

BEYOND THE WESTERN SEA, Book 2 LORD KIRKLE'S MONEY Patrick searches the hold where Laurence has stowed away; Maura fends off the love-smitten Mr. Drabble; Messrs. Clemspool and Grout find themselves again searching for Laurence Kirkle; and two new principals - eight-year-old Bridy Faherty and Ambrose Shagwell, an American mill owner - are added to the mix. Avi re-creates the horrendous conditions of the steerage quarters aboard the emigrant ships as well as the numbing environment of the nineteenth-century mills in Lowell, Massachusetts.

1992

159 p.

Collier, James Lincoln

THE CLOCK In 1810 in Connecticut, trapped in a grueling job in the local textile mill to help pay her father's debts,15-year-old Annie becomes the victim of the cruel overseer and plots revenge against him.

1992

159 p.

Denenberg, Barry

SO FAR FROM HOME THE DIARYOF MARY DRISCOLL, AN IRISH MILL GIRL Dear America series In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, 14-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.

1997

170 p.

Dexter, Catherine

SAFE RETURN In the early 19th century, a Swedish orphan worries that she will again lose someone she loves when her aunt sails to Stockholm during the stormiest season.

1996

94 p.

Fitzgerald, J.D

THE GREAT BRAIN IS BACK Although bedazzled by pretty Polly Reagan, 13-year-old Tom Fitzgerald's great brain and money-loving ways haven't changed a bit.1890 Mormon Utah.

1995

120 p.

Paterson, Katherine

LYDDIE Impoverished Vermont Farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840's.

1991

181 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

THE BLUE DOOR book #3 of The Quilt Trilogy 1840. When her grandmother send her alone on a difficult journey up North, 14-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile mills.

1996

276 p.