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The breaker boysThe breaker boys

The breaker boys

Hughes, Pat

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In 1897, Nate Tanner, the hot-tempered twelve-year-old son of wealthy Pennsylvania mine owners, goes against his father's wishes by befriending some of the boys who work in the mines and gets caught up in a disasterous clash between mine workers and the law.

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OL Work ID
OL5718764W

Subjects

StepfamiliesImmigrantsFathers and sonsFictionLabor movementCoal mines and miningCoal minersHistoryChildren's fictionFamily life, fictionBrothers and sisters, fictionPennsylvania, fiction

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