OBOC: Companion Books and Recommended Reads

Companion Books:

  • Kids: The Traveling Camera: Lewis Hine and the Fight to End Child Labor by Alexandra S. Hinrichs
  • Teens: Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Recommended Reads:

  • Kids: On Our Way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and Her March for Children's Rights by Monica Kulling
    Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel
    Which Side are You On? by George Ella Lyon
  • Teens: Audacity by Melanie Crowder
    The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
  • Adults: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
    The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America by David Rolf
    A History of America in 10 Strikes by Erik Loomis
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
    Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land

 

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