Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson

From a beloved, award-winning author, here is a moving story based on real events surrounding an infamous 1912 strike. Acclaimed children's book author Katherine Paterson discusses her novel of historical fiction that tells the story of the 1912 Bread and Roses strike in. even though she suspects that he is hiding some terrible secret. Bread and Roses, Too focuses on the experience of two adolescents during the strike. This historic class battle involved tens of thousands of workers, largely women from numerous ethnic groups speaking many different languages. This historical novel is about the strike by workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912.

Alone and far from home, she agrees to protect him. 2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Rosas mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills. Bread and Roses, Too, by Katherine Paterson, is set in the historic Lawrence, Massachusetts strike of 1912. Bread and Roses, Too is historical fiction focused on two children, one a schoolgirl and sister and daughter of strikers and the other a mill worker and striker. Then, on the train, a boy begs her to pretend that he is her brother. After all, didn't Miss Finch tell the class that the strikers are nothing but rabble-rousers-an uneducated, violent mob? Suppose Mamma and Anna are jailed or, worse, killed? What will happen to Rosa and little Ricci? When Rosa is sent to Vermont with other children to live with strangers until the strike is over, she fears she will never see her family again. This book takes you through the hard life of a young child, named Rosa, during the Bread and Roses strike of the mill workers of 1912.

But instead of filling their cramped tenement apartment with Italian lullabies, Mamma is out on the streets singing union songs, and Rosa is terrified that her mother and older sister, Anna, are endangering their lives by marching against the corrupt mill owners. Rosa's mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills.

Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson