The breaker boys
By: Pat Hughes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Coal miners -- Fiction.; Coal mines and mining -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Fiction.; Labor movement -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Stepfamilies -- Fiction.; Pennsylvania -- History -- 1865- -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1897, Nate Tanner, the hot-tempered twelve-year-old son of wealthy Pennsylvania mine owners, goes against his father's wishes by befriending some of the boys who work in the mines and gets caught up in a disasterous clash between mine workers and the law.