My Lists
Featured Lists
Missing from Haymarket Square
By Robinet, Harriette
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68983-895-8
- Publisher
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2001
Gr 5-7 Dinah Bell is a child seamstress in an African-American family suffering from the horrid working conditions in Chicago in 1886. Her father has been arrested for being a labor organizer and her mother has lost an arm to the machines. Their one-room flat houses three families, including Olive and Ben, Austrian immigrants. Even that is lost when the landlord decides to evict them, leaving them with nowhere to go. Dinah is resourceful, often hungry, and frightened. She struggle...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
