Title: Breaker at dawn
Description: Working for the past four years in the breaker room of a Pennsylvania coal mine in 1900, twelve-year-old Paddy O'Grady sorts coal twelve hours a day, as labor leader John Mitchell tries to organize a protest against the terrible working conditions.
Subjects: Irish Americans, History, Coal mines and mining, Labor movement, Child labor, Fiction
Places: Pennsylvania
Time periods: 20th century