Bandit's tale : the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2016)

BTSB #: 463358 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Child abuse - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Italians - New York (State) - New York - Fiction Animals - Treatment - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York City where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.

Bitter side of sweet by Sullivan, Tara 

Paperback(Speak, 2017)

BTSB #: 863492 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.1 UG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 810 F&P: Z

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Black people - Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction

Summary: Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape.

Bitter side of sweet by Sullivan, Tara 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2016)

BTSB #: 863495 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.1 UG RC: 5.3 6-8 Lexile: 810 F&P: Z

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Slavery - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Chocolate - Fiction Black people - Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction Cote d'Ivoire - Fiction

Summary: Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape.

Boys without names by Sheth, Kashmira 

Paperback(HarperCollins, 2010)

BTSB #: 811872 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 670

Genres:

Subjects: Child labor - Fiction Missing persons - Fiction Bombay (India) - Fiction India - Fiction

Summary: A provocative look at the brutal life of a young Indian boy who is forced to work in a sweatshop in Mumbai.

Making bombs for Hitler by Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2019)

BTSB #: 823538 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
RC: 4.6 3-5 Lexile: 760

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Ukrainians - Germany - Fiction Germany - History|y1933-1945 - Fiction

Summary: In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.

Making bombs for Hitler by Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2020)

BTSB #: P08048 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Ukrainians - Germany - Fiction

Summary: In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.

Nura and the immortal palace by Khan, M. T. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2022)

BTSB #: P09403 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Supernatural

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Mica mines and mining - Fiction Magic - Fiction Genies - Fiction

Summary: Searching for her buried friend after the mines collapse, twelve-year-old Pakistani mica miner Nura finds herself at the Sijj Palace, a luxury hotel for the dangerous and deceitful jinn, where she must discover the truth beneath the glitter or be trapped forever.

Treasure of the world by Sullivan, Tara 

Paperback(Putnam, 2022)

BTSB #: 863992 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 820 F&P: Z

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Silver mines and mining - Fiction Family life - Bolivia - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Latin Americans - Fiction Bolivia - Fiction

Summary: After a mining accident kills her father and leaves her brother missing, twelve-year-old Ana puts her dreams on hold and goes into the mine to help her family survive in their impoverished Bolivian silver mining community.