coal miners

"Two Appalachian families, one White and one Black, are connected by a well-loved kitchen table"--Provided by publisher.

"The true story of the West Virginia coal miners who ignited the largest labor uprising in American history"--Provided by publisher.

"Tells the story of J. P. Morgan, a banker, and Theodore Roosevelt, the president, who were thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the coal miners strike and the antitrust casewould change the course of history"--Adapted from dust jacket.

Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Apprehensive about spending the summer in Washington State with his Aunt Ethel when his parents get an overseas job, twelve-year-old Josh soon finds adventure when he meets the ghost of a coal miner.

In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.

American adventurer Jonathan Blair enters the grim world of coal mining in nineteenth-century England in an attempt to find a missing cleric who was engaged to marry the daughter of Blair's sponsor, the wealthy Bishop Hannay.