Breaker / Perez, Norah A

Fourteen-year-old Pat McFarlane, forced to go to work as a breaker boy in a Pennsylvania coal mine after the death of his father, wonders how his already poverty-stricken family will survive when the miners, spurred on by unionist John Mitchell, call a strike in 1902.

After his father's death, fourteen-year-old Pat is forced to go to work in the coal mines that dominate his Pennsylvania town and becomes involved in the big mine workers' strike of 1902.