From a beloved, award-winning author, here is a moving story based on real events surrounding an infamous 1912 strike. Rosa’s mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills.
But instead of filling their cramped tenement apartment. even though she suspects that he is hiding some terrible secret. Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson: 9780739331088 : Books Rosa’s mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills. Alone and far from home, she agrees to protect him. Bread and Roses, Too Katherine Paterson HarperCollins, Juvenile Fiction - 288 pages 23 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when. Then, on the train, a boy begs her to pretend that he is her brother. When Rosa is sent to Vermont with other children to live with strangers until the strike is over, she fears she will never see her family again. After all, didn’t Miss Finch tell the class that the strikers are nothing but rabble-rousers-an uneducated, violent mob? Suppose Mamma and Anna are jailed or, worse, killed? What will happen to Rosa and little Ricci? Returning to themes she explored in Lyddie, Paterson sets this novel in the winter of 1912 in Lawrence, Mass., where the plight of textile mill workers unfolds through the alternating. But instead of filling their cramped tenement apartment with Italian lullabies, Mamma is out on the streets singing union songs, and Rosa is terrified that her mother and older sister, Anna, are endangering their lives by marching against the corrupt mill owners.
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