Growing Up in Coal Country
- ISBN-10
- 0395979145
- ISBN-13
- 9780395979143
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 127
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-09
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Description
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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