Rachel and the riot
Subtitle: the labor movement divides a family
By: Susan Martins Miller.
Series: Sisters in time
Publisher: Barbour Pub.; Barbour Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Uhrichsville, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Labor movement -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Juvenile fiction; Riots -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Juvenile fiction; Girls -- Juvenile fiction; Strikes and lockouts -- Transport workers -- Fiction; Labor movement -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Fiction; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction; Christian life -- Fiction; Minneapolis (Minn.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Minneapolis (Minn.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: When, in 1889, the streetcar drivers of Minneapolis, Minnesota, decide to strike for better wages, ten-year-old Rachel finds that the increasingly violent rift between labor and management is causing bitter divisions among her family and friends.
Notes: Ages 8-12.