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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Based on the extensive historical archive of Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire and portraying the lives of real people, this powerful scripted drama series depicts Britain at a time when the industrial revolution is changing the country beyond recognition. In the 1830s, children as young as nine work twelve-hour shifts in the mills, and the new class of mill-owning families prosper. But the so-called 'white slaves of England' are about to take their lives...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Twelve year-old Grace and her best friend, Arthur, must leave school to work as doffers in the mill. Grace meets Lewis Hine, a reformer with a camera, who finds his way into the mill so that he can take pictures of kids like Grace and Arthur next to the enormous spinning frames that beat out the rhythm of their twelve-hour days. Grace becomes his secret ally.
4) Big cotton: how a humble fiber created fortunes, wrecked civilizations, and put America on the map
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Traces the history of cotton, examines the impact it has had on civilizations throughout history, and describes the many uses of cotton.
5) Cotton
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Briefly describes how cotton is grown, the pests and diseases that threaten it, and how it is processed into various types of fabrics.
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