City of grit and gold / Maud Macrory Powell.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Forest Park, IL : Allium Press of Chicago, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 139 pages : map ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780996755856
- 0996755853
- Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886 -- Juvenile fiction
- Labor movement -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Juvenile fiction
- Jews -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
- German Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Powell Maud Mac | Available | 33111008975811 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The streets of Chicago in 1886 are full of turmoil. Striking workers clash with police...illness and injury lurk around every corner...and twelve-year-old Addie must find her way through it all. Torn between her gruff Papa--who owns a hat shop and thinks the workers should be content with their American lives--and her beloved Uncle Chaim--who is active in the protests for the eight-hour day--Addie struggles to understand her topsy-turvy world, while also keeping her family intact. Set in a Jewish neighborhood of Chicago during the days surrounding the Haymarket Affair, this novel vividly portrays one immigrant family's experience, while also eloquently depicting the timeless conflict between the haves and the have-nots.
Addie, a twelve-year-old Jewish girl in 1886 Chicago, struggles to keep her family together at the time of the Haymarket affair, as laborers protest for better working conditions.