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A review by laleha
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson
4.0
I have meant to read this one since it was published (when I still lived in Lawrence). I wanted a story to listen to at bedtime, this was available on Overdrive, I went for it.
I was a bit alarmed when I first heard reader Lorna Raver's voice, I thought I wasn't going to like her. I quickly warmed to her, though, because her accents (Scottish not withstanding, Duncan) were excellent!
I want to go back and reread Lyddie now as I seem to remember her leaving Vermont to work in the Lowell mills... Funny that Rosa (who was a school girl, not a laborer) should end up in Vermont on her "vacation."
Good way to explain the awful mill conditions, I could see middle school historical fiction loving girls enjoying this.
I was a bit alarmed when I first heard reader Lorna Raver's voice, I thought I wasn't going to like her. I quickly warmed to her, though, because her accents (Scottish not withstanding, Duncan) were excellent!
I want to go back and reread Lyddie now as I seem to remember her leaving Vermont to work in the Lowell mills... Funny that Rosa (who was a school girl, not a laborer) should end up in Vermont on her "vacation."
Good way to explain the awful mill conditions, I could see middle school historical fiction loving girls enjoying this.