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Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
Contributor(s): Freedman, Russell (Author)

ISBN: 0395797268 ISBN-13: 9780395797266
Publisher: Clarion Books

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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: March 1998
Annotation: Hine, an investigative reporter for the National Child Labor Committee, took photographs that provided dramatic visual evidence that the U.S. needed laws against child labor. Features Hines' groundbreaking photos, along with text by Newbery Honor Winner Freedman.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science - Politics & Government
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science - Sociology
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History - United States - 20th Century

Dewey: B

LCCN: 93005989

Age Level: 10-12

Grade Level: 5-7

Lexile Measure: 1140(Not Available)

Guided Reading: T (Grade 5)

Physical Information: 0.32" H x 9.9" W x 8.44" L (0.91 lbs) 104 pages

Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century

Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Awards: Garden State Teen Book Award, Winner, Nonfiction, 1997

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/06/1998

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 11820
Reading Level: 7.5 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 2.0

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Publisher Description:
Photobiography of early twentieth-century photographer and schoolteacher Lewis Hine, using his own work as illustrations. Hines's photographs of children at work were so devastating that they convinced the American people that Congress must pass child labor laws.

Contributor Bio(s): Freedman, Russell: - RUSSELL FREEDMAN received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography. He is also the recipient of three Newbery Honors, a National Humanities Medal, the Sibert Medal, the Orbis Pictus Award, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and was selected to give the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Mr. Freedman lives in New York City and travels widely to research his books.

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