The breaker boys
Coal miners
Pennsylvania, fiction
Stepfamilies
Coal mines and mining
Labor movement
Fathers and sons
Immigrants
Brothers and sisters, fiction
Family life, fiction
Children's fiction
History
Fiction
In 1897, Nate Tanner, the hot-tempered twelve-year-old son of wealthy Pennsylvania mine owners, goes against his father's wishes by befriending some of the boys who work in the mines and gets caught up in a disasterous clash between mine workers and the law.
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