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Sue Reid
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Publisher | Scholastic | ||
ISBN | 9781407103730 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
In spring 1842, Eliza is shocked when she is sent to work in the Manchester cotton mills - the noisy, suffocating mills. The work is backbreaking and dangerous - and when she sees her friends' lives wrecked by poverty, sickness and unrest, Eliza realizes she must fight to escape the fate of a mill girl.
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Mill Girl - My Story is one of a new series coverng the experience history first-and with a series of vividly imagined accounts of life in the past. This book is very well written by Sue Reid, easy and beautifull to read.
I found the story so moving and the way the young people were treated very hard to accept, especially when we see our own children being allowed to stay in education until they are 21. We would be horrified if our youngsters had to work from the ages of 9+. I wonder how we as parents would react if our children were expected to work to keep mills or coal mines running? We may have much poverty today but nothing like children and parents of the industrial revolution years.
This is going to be a brilliant series and I look forward to reading more of them.
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