Growing Up Of Coals Country By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Kourtney Hall Growing up in Coals Country By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti Publication Information: Houghton Mifflin published this book on September 28,1999, and the book has a total of 123 pages. Topic: This story is mainly about children who lived in towns with coal mines and what their life was like.And how the coal mines affected them. This story isnt about just boys and men working in the coal mines.Its much more.It is also about families working together to make their lives better in America.Its a story about the breaker boys playing mean jokes on their mean bosses.It is about women and children collecting scraps of coal to sell, when they arent really supposed to.And it is about families coming together in ethnic groups to keep their beliefs alive.Finally,It is about the workers uniting by overcoming their differences and make a move against the unfair labor of coal owners. The author of the book, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, gathered the opinions of the men,children,and women who worked in Pennsylvania in the 1800s.She also got information like what job they had,where they lived,and even what kind of animals that helped them,such as mules. The workdays began before dawn in the coal country.When the men and boys got ready for work,they wore different clothing. The men wore rubber boots with coveralls,as the boys pulled on caps,overcoats, and laced up hobnailed boots.The young boys worked in the breaker.The breaker was the tall,gloomy part where coal was broken and