Title: Samantha Learns a Lesson
First published: 1986
Description: When nine-year-old Nellie begins to attend school, Samantha determines to help her with her schoolwork and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory.
Subjects: Fiction, Schools, Orphans, Child labor, Friendship, Juvenile Historical Fiction, Children: Grades 3-4, Juvenile Fiction, Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction, Historical - United States - General, Social Issues - General, Social Situations - General, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, Schools, fiction, Friendship, fiction