Jake and Rosa form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, MA and later are sent to Barre, Vermont.
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On a travelling book tour
Each year kids in Vermont, grades 4 to 8, are encouraged to read books from a list of 30 titles. In April, kids throughout Vermont vote on their favorite title, & the book that receives the most votes is the winner of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award. Here follows the list for 2007/08. Read some or read them all. Post your thoughts here!
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DCF List 2007-2008
- Adventures of Marco Polo, The
- Alabama Moon
- All of the Above
- Alphabet of Dreams
- Black Duck
- Bread and Roses, Too
- Case of the Missing Marquess, The
- Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen, The
- Counting on Grace
- Crossing the Wire
- Dream-Maker's Magic, The
- Drowned Maiden's Hair, A
- Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini
- Firegirl
- Gemini Summer
- Gossamer
- Hattie Big Sky
- Higher Power of Lucky, The
- Keturah and Lord Death
- King of Attolia, The
- Listen!
- Odd Man Out
- One-Handed Catch
- Owen & Mzee
- Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts
- Rules
- Small White Scar, A
- Story of Salt, The
- Weedflower
- White Elephant, The
Labels
- autism (1)
- biographies (2)
- Canadian authors (3)
- contemporary fiction (8)
- criminal activity (1)
- disabilities (4)
- dog stories (2)
- Down syndrome (1)
- fantasy (4)
- historical fiction (9)
- humorous stories (2)
- magic (1)
- multicultural fiction (4)
- mysteries (5)
- nonfiction (2)
- orphan stories (3)
- pioneer fiction (1)
- romance (1)
- siblings (3)
- survival stories (2)
- suspense (1)
- Vermont fiction (2)
- World War II fiction (2)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
On a travelling book tour
Who is Dorothy Canfield Fisher?
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) was a very busy author who published a lot of books for adults and children from the early 1900s through the 1950s. She lived in Vermont but her books were popular worldwide!
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- Counting on Grace, by Elizabeth Winthrop
- The King of Attolia, by Megan Whalen Turner
- Listen, by Stephanie Tolan
- The Case of the Missing Marquess, by Nancy Springer
- The Dream-Maker's Magic, by Sharon Shinn
- All of the Above, by Shelley Pearsall
- Bread and Roses, Too, by Katherine Paterson
- A Small White Scar, by K. A. Nuzum
- Rules, by Cynthia Lord
- Black Duck, by Janet Taylor Lisle
- Gemini Summer, by Iain Lawrence
- Alabama Moon, by Watt Key
- Weedflower, by Cynthia Kadohata
- Crossing the Wire, by Will Hobbs
- Owen & Mzee, by Isabella Hatkoff
- The Adventures of Marco Polo, by Russell Freedman
- Alphabet of Dreams, by Susan Fletcher
- The White Elephant, by Sid Fleischman
- Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini, by Sid Fl...
- Odd Man Out, by Sarah Ellis
- Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts!, by Frances O'Roark ...
- One-Handed Catch, by Mary Jane Auch
- The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen, by M.T. Anderson
- Firegirl, by Tony Abbott
- The Story of Salt, by Mark Kurlansky
- Hattie Big Sky, by Kirby Larson
- A Drowned Maiden's Hair, by Laura Amy Schlitz
- The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron
- Gossamer, by Lois Lowry
- Keturah and Lord Death, by Martine Leavitt
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14 comments:
Two children from different families pretend to be brother and sister as they travel away from their homes. Their escape from the mill strikes and hunger is a story that is based on fact and helps us understand what families suffered during this time.
this book was very interesting. they begin to feel the hunger and that i believe that it was based on the fact of how families suffered through these times.
Rosa had to be brave to be parted from her family.I,too would be heart broken if I were forced to leave my family and not even know when I would see them again.
I think Bread and Roses, too has a strong bond with how it happened in real live. Katherine Paterson really knows about events and also studies, which she came to our school and she told us that it took her a long time to find the information and I would call this the BEST book i've ever read, and I give it ten stars **********:)
i think this book is totally awsome but I got very hungrey reading it. I really liked the ending. I met the author (katherine paterson)she told us how hard she worked to make it. this book is great!!!!!!!!!! :-)
Mia and Nicole says: This book was a great clif hanger, it left us in a lot of spots were we wanted to keep on reading.It was a great book and Rosa had a great sence of humor.
Nathan C. from Berlin Says...
Bread and roses, too is a great book along with many other books that Katherine Paterson wrote. I really liked it.
Bread and Roses too
By Katherine Paterson
Entry by Mary Milepost
I really enjoyed reading this book because it’s historical fiction. I really liked to learn about what it would have been like to live in1912 during the strike.
This book was really a great read and I learned a lot about the mills and about what happened to the children when everyone went on strike.
This was a healthy book for people.
Chris a of Berlin says: Bread and Roses, too is a great book written by Katherine Paterson. Mill workers got on a strike and you kepp on wondering were they going come home. Barely making enough money to live. I recommened this book to everyone. I learned that it was a hard time to live in a time of strike. This is one of the best books i have ever read. :-)
Sarah D. of Berlin syas:
This book was a great read!!! I really injoyed how drawn into the book you get!! Me and my literacy class got ot meet the author, she came our class and we gave her roses and we ate breda, cheese, and some peperoni!!! It was really fun, and she really was happy when we gave her the flowers. She signed our books and told us how hard she worked to provide us with this great book! I've also met her before at other times she came to our school, i've met her around 3 times!!! THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This book left an imprint on myself. It was really touching and grabbed me as soon as I opened the first page. It also educated me about the protests and problems going on during this time period. I loved it!
LF from Calais says: I think that it is pretty slow going, but after you read it, you like it a lot! I reccomend it.
Bread and roses too really left an imprint on me. it's sort of annoying how her mother won't listen to her how the strike is a bad thing to get into
I think that this book was really good. It has a lot of history in it and i learned a lot about how life was a long time ago. It was written really well also. if you enjoy reading about history you will probably like this book.
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