Child Labor & Youth Rights Bibliography

Child Labor Unit Bibliography

Reading / Writing  Materials	Title/Author/Publisher	Genre / Genre Category	Lexile Levels
Read Aloud for Pleasure	A Chance Child	Realistic/Historical Fiction	930
Read Aloud (Mentor Texts)	Kid Blink Beats The World	Historical Fiction	AD940
Whole Group Novel	City of Orphans	Historical Fiction	HL570
Small Group Leveled Reading (3 levels)	1-Midnight is a Place 2-Iqbal 3-Joshua’s Song	1-Fantasy 2-Realistic Fiction 3-Realistic Fiction	1-970 2-730 3-520
Booktalk	City of Orphans, A Chance Child, Kid Blink Beats the World, David Copperfield	Noted above	David Copperfield-830
Recommend for further independent reading	Lost Riders, Branded, Children of War	Realistic Fiction; Non-Fiction; Non-Fiction	800*; HL600; 860
Poetry to use in your theme	Babies in the Mill	Song	NA
Digital Sources for Reading	1899 articles from the New York Times.	Periodical	NA
Digital Sources for Teaching	Newsies (1992), Babies In the Mill, song/YouTube.	Film/Song	NA
Writing Materials for Theme	Lewis Hine photographs; UN and U.S. DOL conventions	Photography/Informational Text	NA

Author	Title	Publ. Date	Publisher	Lexile Score
Avi	City of Orphans	2011	Antheneum Books for Young Readers	HL570
Dickens, Charles	David Copperfield	1850	Bradbury & Evans	830
Dickens, Charles	Oliver Twist	1838	Richard Bentley	1000
Aiken, Joan	Midnight is a Place	1974	Sandpiper	970
Winthrop, Elisabeth	Counting on Grace	2006	Random House	760
D’Adamo, Francesco	Iqbal	2003	Simon & Schuster	730
Harlow, Joan Hiatt	Joshua’s Song	2002	Simon & Schuster	520
Walsh, Jill Paton	A Chance Child	1991	Firrar, Strauss & Giroux	930
Laird, Elizabeth	Lost Riders	2011	Paw Prints	800*
Walters, Eric	Branded	2010	Orca Book Publishers	HL600
Michael, Livi	The Whispering Road	2006	Puffin	????
Boling, Katharine	January, 1905	2004	Harcourt	690
Schraff, Anne E.	Someday the Sun will Shine Again	2000	Perfection Learning Corp.	650
McCully, Emily Arnold	The Bobbin Girl	1996	Dial Books	600
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell	Kids on Strike	1999	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	920
Brown, Don	Kid Blink Beats The World	2004	Roaring Book Press	AD940
Ellis, Deborah	The Breadwinner	2000	Douglas & McIntyre	630
Ellis, Deborah	Children of War	2008	Groundwood Books	860
Freedman, Russell	Kids At Work	1998	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	1140

Articles & Websites

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Gallagher2003Fall/DMARTIN/INDEX.HTM[A thematic unit outline on Child Labor for early adolescents]

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28381/28381.txt[Novel Ben, The Luggage Boy. Writted by Horatio Alger]

http://www.enotes.com/child-labor-nineteenth-century-literature-essays/child-labor-nineteenth-century-literature[Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved.]

http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html[History of Child Labor in the US]

http://stopchildlabor.org{The Stop Child Labor Coalition]

http://www.unicef.org/protection/57929_58009.html[UNICEF site on child labor and exploitation]

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/child_labor/[NY Times search of child labor]

http://www.history.com/topics/child-labor[History Channel search of child labor]

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/[Photographs of Child Labor]

http://www.compassion.com/child-advocacy/find-your-voice/quick-facts/child-labor-quick-facts.htm[Child Labor Statistics]

http://www.hrw.org/topic/childrens-rights/child-labor[Human Rights Watch search Child labor]

http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/youthlabor/intlchildlabor.htm[US Dept. of Labor]

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/things/4280/child_labor/478193[Child Labor in Pennsylvania]

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=nclc[Library of Congress]

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist8.html[Child Labor in England]

http://www.aft.org/about/world/democracy-humanrights/childlabor/index.cfm[American Federation of Teachers]

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/history-child-labor[Scholastic]

http://www.nationalchildlabor.org/index.html[National Child Labor Committee]

http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org[Child Labor Photos]

http://www.childinfo.org/labour.html[Unicef statistics]

http://www.labor.ar.gov/divisions/Pages/childLabor.aspx[Arkansas Department of Labor]

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hine-photos/[National Archives Lewis Hine]

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-201_162-10013659-2.html[Child Labor CBS News]

http://www.goodweave.org/child_labor_campaign/facts[Good Weave Facts]

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/documents/publication/wcms_099511.pdf[International Labor Office Facts and Figures]

http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/164047/howknow/..%5Cpdf%5Cfacts.pdf[World Bank facts and graphs]

http://globalfree.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/child-labour-facts/[Global Freedom Movement blog]

http://www.dol.gov/ilab/programs/ocft/2012TVPRA.pdf[Dept. of Labor Products produced by child labor]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/18/child-labor-products_n_798601.html#s211003&title=1_Gold[Huffington Post Products produced by Child Labor]

http://www.unicef.org/csr/css/Child_labour_resource_Guide_UK_NatCom.pdf[UNICEF Child Labor Resource guide]

http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiBABEMILL;ttBABEMILL.html [Babies In The Mill lyrics]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNeBgpuNMSI [Babies In The Mill by Dorsey Dixon]