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Lexile/Reading Level
840L

Genre/Category
Fantasy | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Industrial Revolution
Date
1700s | Late 1700s
Topic
Curses | Mills | Retelling
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Woman/Women
Award-Winning Book
Other Awards | Smithsonian Notable Book | William C. Morris YA Debut Award
Format
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Curse Dark As Gold, A

Author: Bunce, Elizabeth C.

This ravishing winner of the ALA’s William C. Morris YA Debut Award is a fairy tale, spun with a mystery, woven with a family story, and shot through with romance.

Charlotte Miller has always scoffed at talk of a curse on her family’s woolen mill, which holds her beloved small town together. But after her father’s death, the bad luck piles up: departing workers, impossible debts, an overbearing uncle. Then a stranger named Jack Spinner offers a tempting proposition: He can turn straw into gold thread, for the small price of her mother’s ring. As Charlotte is drawn deeper into her bargains with Spinner-and a romance with the local banker-she must unravel the truth of the curse on the mill and save the community she’s always called home.

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Lexile/Reading Level
1210L Recommended for 5-9 Grades

Genre/Category
Nonfiction | Picture Books | Science | Technology

Historical Time Period
Industrial Revolution
Date
1800s
Topic
Architecture | Mills | Science | Technology
Geographic Region
New England | United States - America
Format
Book | Ebook

Mill

Author: Macaulay, David

The mills at Wicksbridge are imaginary, but their planning, construction, and operation are quite typical of mills developed in New England throughout the nineteenth century.

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Lexile/Reading Level
580L

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Crimes | Family Relationships | Hiding | Intergenerational Relationships | Mills
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book

Blue Door (Quilt Trilogy #3)

Author: Rinaldi, AnnPart of a Series: Quilt Trilogy

Amanda Videau had no idea what adventures she’d find on the journey North. But she never expected thisÂ… After witnessing a crime, she goes into hiding, disguising herself as a worker in her great-grandfather’s textile mill. For the first time in her life, Amanda must work to survive. And that means experiencing the horrible working conditions of the mill firsthand.
Now, as Amanda fights for her newfound rights, she must also try to heal generations of deep Chelmsford family wounds. And that means facing the man behind the blue door–the man who tore apart the family quilt so many years ago.

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Lexile/Reading Level
830L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Civil War
Date
1800s
Topic
Based on True Story(s)/event | Child Labor | Escapes | Journey | Military and Wars | Mills
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book

Turn Homeward, Hannalee

Author: Beatty, Patricia

During the closing days of the Civil War, plucky 12-year-old Hannalee Reed, sent north to work in a Yankee mill, struggles to return to the family she left behind in war-torn Georgia. “A fast-moving novel based upon an actual historical incident with a spunky heroine and fine historical detail.”–School Library Journal.

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Lexile/Reading Level
860L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1800s
Topic
Family Relationships | Mills | Orphans | Servants
Geographic Region
Massachusetts | United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
Award-Winning Book
ALA Notable Children's Book | ALA's Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults | Nominee | Other Awards | Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award
Format
Book

Lyddie

Author: Paterson, Katherine

A story of an orphan girl, separated from her siblings, and her struggle to earn enough money to reunite them, along with her struggle for better working conditions in the Lowell, Mass. mills.

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Lexile/Reading Level
760L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Industrial Revolution
Date
1800s
Topic
Doing what's right | Industrial Revolution | Mills | Working
Geographic Region
Connecticut | United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
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Clock, The

Author: Collier, James and Christopher

When her spendthrift father goes into debt after buying a sheep and the inner workings of a clock, fifteen-year-old Annie Steele is sent to work in the town’s new wool mill to help support her family. Her job is full of risk — especially after she and her friend Robert discover that the mill’s cruel overseer is stealing bags of wool and decide to do something about it.

Annie longs for the chance to continue her schooling and become a teacher. Will she ever be able to leave the mill?

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