Samantha Learns a Lesson

Susan S. Adler Nancy Niles Robert Grace First published 1986

About this book

When nine-year-old Nellie begins to attend school, Samantha determines to help her with her schoolwork and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory.

Subjects

  • child labor
  • children: grades 3-4
  • children's books/ages 9-12 fiction
  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • friendship
  • friendship, fiction
  • historical - united states - general
  • juvenile fiction
  • juvenile historical fiction
  • orphans
  • orphans, fiction
  • schools
  • schools, fiction
  • social issues - general
  • social situations - general