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1) Lyddie
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English
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Gr 5-9 --In this superb novel, Paterson deftly depicts a Lowell, Massachusetts fabric mill in the 1840s and a factory girl whose life is changed by her experiences there. Readers first meet 13-year-old Lyddie Worthen staring down a bear on her family' debt-ridden farm in the Vermont mountains. With her fierce spirit, she stares down a series of metaphorical bears in her year as a servant girl at an inn and then in her months under grueling conditions...
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Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
℗2013
Language
English
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Charlie Bucket has a golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. No ladies in hairnets here! This factory is the ultimate candy land with singing Oompa-Loompas and a chocolate river. But along the way, the other ticket-holders meet bizarre fates. Will Charlie make it to the secret prize waiting at the tour's end?
3) Saboteur
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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Barry Kane is a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Hitchcock's first film with an all-American cast moves with breakneck speed toward its final heart-pounding...
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In clear and eloquent language, Gary Paulsen pays tribute to a cycle of life - from seed to plant to tortilla. Workers till the black soil, operate the clanking machinery of the factory, and drive the trucks that deliver the tortillas back into the hands that will plant the yellow seeds.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 27
Publisher
Scholastic
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English
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Geronimo Stilton regrets that he is too busy to celebrate Christmas in New Mouse City and wishes he could fly to Santa's toy factory.
7) Mill
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
The construction of an early nineteenth-century spinning mill in Rhode Island. Best Books for Junior High Readers. Four different Rhode Island textile mills of the nineteenth century are described in text and excellent drawings. Best Books for Senior High Readers. In a text that uses original sources and many excellent diagrams, 4 different nineteenth-century New England cotton mills are described. Best Books for Children, 6th ed. The construction...
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The candymakers volume 1
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English
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When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process.
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Without the means to support herself after her father dies, Carrington Brouwer is given the opportunity to use her artistic talent at her friend's father's carousel factory. But the men at the factory are not happy that a woman has been given the desirable job of painting the elaborately carved horses. When mishaps occur at the factory, and jewelry disappears from the owner's home, accusations swirl. Is the handsome young factory manager truly Carrie's...
11) New in town
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After she is sent to small-town Minnesota to oversee the restructuring of a manufacturing plant, a high-powered consultant from Miami finds her priorities changing.
14) Uprising
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In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.
15) New in Town
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she's ordered to close down the plant and put the entire...
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"Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie...
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Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 19
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It is up to the Thea sisters to investigate when an Ecuadorian chocolate factory known for its environmental practices begins malfunctioning and the owner suspects sabotage.
19) Mill Times
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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This animated program centers on a small New England community similar to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where Samuel Slater established America's first textile mill. Live action hosted by David Macaulay, takes viewers from Manchester, England, to Lowell, Massachusetts, explaining technological changes that transformed the making of textiles, a key component of the Industrial Revolution sweeping across Europe and America in the late 18th century.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Willy Wonka, the eccentric owner of a candy factory, decides to open up his factory to five lucky kids who won a contest by finding golden tickets in his candy bars. As the tour progresses, each kid succumbs to a temptation of their weaknesses except for Charlie Bucket, an innocent child whose family has grown up in poverty in the shadow Willy Wonka's monstrous factory.