factories

Introduces young readers to cutting edge technologies and examines how they work.

Luli has just aged out of the orphanage where she grew up, so she starts work in a factory thanks to her friend Yun. Yun is also an orphan and loves the independence that the factory job brings her: she can buy and do the things that she wants, including having a boyfriend. There are rumors that her boyfriend, Yong, is a bride trafficker, but Yun doesn't believe them. When Yun discovers that she's pregnant and then disappears, Luli tries to track her down, afraid of what Yong might do to both Yun and the baby.

"Left-handers are creative. Left-handers are geniuses. Half of all cats are lefties! Or so says Stink. But Judy is a righty, and Judy is feeling left out. Tomorrow is Left Handers Day, and Stink and Dad, the southpaws in the Moody family, are celebrating with a trip to the pretzel factory. Judy is allowed to come along on one condition: she has to be left-handed the whole entire day. It's on!"--Provided by publisher.

A small act of beauty in the midst of environmental degradation reminds young readers of their own agency and of the life-affirming strength of family and community.

Learn about numerous roles of women during the war, including as spies, army nurses, factory workers, and pilots.

The world's most evil corporation of the future invades Caveland, Ohio and enslaves the inhabitants, until a time portal takes Ook and Gluk to the year 2222, where they meet a wise new friend who provides them with the means of saving the day.

Sixteen-year-old Roshen is dreaming of becoming a teacher when she's sent with a group of other girls away from her desert home in northern China to work in a southern factory town. Alone, facing deplorable conditions and contempt from older workers, Roshen becomes a leader for the other young girls around her, and as time goes on, she knows she won't return home the same person.

In 1927, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends.

Panda, Zebra, and Penguin invite the reader to tour a factory where messes, color, and surprises are forbidden but an accident occurs and the reader must help clean it up.

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