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you enjoy historical fiction, this book is really good! The two main characters are Jake and Rosa, children who live in Lawrence, MA, during the historical period of the bread and roses mill strikes.


At first I thought this was a book of different short stories because of the chapter titles such as "Shoe Girl" and "The Best Student" and "The Beautiful Mrs.
Gurley Flynn" that sounded unrelated, However, each chapter provided more insight into the lives of the main characters and the trials they went through their experiences,

While Rosa's family has immigrated to the U, S. and is barely making ends meet, Jake is dealing with the death of one parent and the abuse of another, It's heartwarming to follow them and see how each one handles his or her plight in life, I'd say completely differently.

Recommendation: I'd recommend this book to anyone, but if you enjoy history don't miss this one, Bread and Roses, Too is about a girl named Rosa and a boy Jake, two different people who met once in an alley where Jake slept.
They live in a place where many people are going on strike because of the little pay they recieve at the Mills,

Rosa is a good school girl without a father, who knows better, but is caught up in the strikes, Her mother and sister go along with the crowds of people striking, Jake, a boy who lives on the street, works at the mills, and gets beaten by his alcoholic father, goes along with the strike also.


The author really knows how to make a book very interesting to the reader, and makes you want to keep reading to learn more about the way life was for the people in those days and condisions, and also she keeps you wanting to read to know what will happen next!

Also, she made it so that it went back and forth telling what's going on with the boy, and with the girl at times you would never guess, most likely to make the book more interesting and tell it from different points of view.


I would highly suggest this book to anybody who likes works of literature about the hardships of people's lives and how those people deal with things that happen in their lives!

Savannah Channell

September,







This was a very good YA historical novel.
It tells about the Lawrence Strike of, Factories cut the work week back two hours, depriving already hungry and cold families of a couple of badly needed loaves of bread,

We see both sides of the fence so to speak, Rosa is against the strike even tho her mother and sister are a part of it, Her teacher is partly to blame for Rosa's doubts, Also, Rosa is worried that her mother will get hurt or worse, murdered because the strike does get out hand a few times and at least two young people end up dead.
But is it the fault of the strikers or the mill owners and their armies

Jake is the other side, He is for the strike, It makes him feel like a man which a big thing for a kid that sleeps in trash piles to stay warm, He occasionally has his doubts tho too, . especially when he is starving without shelter,

Both Jake and Rosa go to Vermont to wait the strike out, Rosa is worried that the strike will never end, Jake has nothing to go back to except a secret he doesn't want revealed,

I enjoyed it well enough tho I had a hard time with Jake, He is unlikeable at times as he steels from the poor box, hides in churches, and burries himself in trash, Tho it was a good read and I learned a lot about thestrike that I didn't know before, it fails to hit the five star mark cause it never MOVED me.
I never laughed, cried, chuckled, or gasped,Laura Ingalls Wilder Award

Rosa's mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills, 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.
After all, didn't Miss Finch tell the class that the strikers are nothing but rabblerousersan 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.
Then, on the train, a boy begs her to pretend that he is her brother, Alone and far from home, she agrees to protect him, . . even though she suspects that he is hiding some terrible secret, From a beloved, awardwinning author, here is a moving story based on real events surrounding an infamousstrike, کتاب صوتی بدون اجرای ایوب آقاخانی حرام است!

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چسبید ! This is a great book, It takes place during the strikes in wool mills in Massachusetts, The main character is a young Italian immagrant named Rosa, who lives with her mother, sister, and little brother, Her mother sends her to Burre, Vermont on a train with other children, to live with a foster family during the strike, Jake at, use to work in the mills but now there is a strike going on, His father who doesn't work, takes Jake's money to buy booze and beats Jake, Jake is fed up with the beatings and lives where he can, Most of the time, on the streets but also at the shoe girl's house and sometimes in one of the two local Catholic churches where he takes coins from the money box.
He's tried more than once to go back to work but gets stopped by the strikers,

Rosa lives with her mother, sister, brother and boarders, Her mother and sister work for the mills but are on strike and attend meetings as though it was their entire life, They picket along with the other strikers but it is against the law to strike and a few young people get shot, The strikers are blamed for that, Some of the

picketers end up in jail while the masses are threatened,

Rosa is scared for the lives of her mother and sister, Because this strike takes place in Lawrence, MA, it is local history for my husband who grew up around there, He is familiar with the streets and other locations spoken of in this book, This book is a good book to read because its based on a large strike for more money and the girls mom is on strike and she is mad because they are poor withpeople liveing in her house with her dad just passing away and she finds out her mom is sending her away.
Katherine Paterson writes this story of a boy and a girl who are sent to be cared for in Barre, VT during the Lawrence Mass.
textile workers strike of. This was also called the Bread and Roses Strike, thus the title of the book, She describes the life they were living in Lawrence before being sent to Barre, and also their life with the family in Barre, The boy and girl are not related, but knew each other slightly in Lawrence,

This is a well written book, telling a good story, My book group of older educated women really liked it and so did I, It generated a good discussion, This book explores the struggle of factory workers as unions were forming, The tone of the book is light enough that the weighty material doesn't seem traumatic, and the ending is hopeful, This book should be required reading for students, for anybody prounion and for anybody antiunion, So basically everyone.

This book is a fictional account of thelabor strike in the US which we see through the eyes of two children Rosa and Jake.
Had it not been for the strike these two would never have met,

This book is beautifully written, Each and every character in this book left an impression on me, It was such a touching story,

I picked up this book after watching Bridge to Terabithia, also written by this author, Sadly, I watched the movie not knowing it was based on a book, I look forward to reading that and anything else I can get my hands on by this author, Since lately I can't seem to decide upon my feelings or opinions whatsoever it's a teenage thing I guess, I can't say for sure whether or not I really enjoyed this book.
However, I can say that it didn't bore me quite as much as I thought it would, being historical fiction, Of course, it still dragged on with historical information at some points, but knowing some of the history also through class review helped me understand and enjoy the story a bit more.


My favorite part of the book was when it began to take a different direction and focus more on the main characters both very dynamic, Jake and Rosa, than the mill workers and the strike in Lawrence.
I think I found this more interesting because I could relate to it a bit more, being around their age, I liked being able to compare how they went about their days with how I go about mine,

Now, the allimportant ending:
I'm hard to satisfy when it comes to endings, Sometimes cliffhangers are okay, but usually they drive me or anyone nuts, Especially when there's no sequel planned to come out, However, it's hard to end a story without using some cheesy, overplayed, sawthatcomingsincehalfwaythroughthebook deal, I think "Bread and Roses, Too" had a nice balance of the two, Some people predicted the ending long before it came, and I had an idea of what would happen, but it was pretty ambiguous right up until the very end.
Most loose ends were tied up, but we were still left with some questions regarding what will happen to Rosa when she returns home,

Overall, this is one of the better books I've read in my middle school experiences,

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