Title: The breaker boys
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.
Subjects: Stepfamilies, Immigrants, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Labor movement, Coal mines and mining, Coal miners, History, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Pennsylvania, fiction
Places: Pennsylvania
Time periods: 1865-