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2) Lyddie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-producing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.
4) Modern times
Series
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (188 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Man vs. machine! And the winner is every comedy fan when Charlie Chaplin's "Tramp" confronts assembly line woes. The "Little Tramp" punches in and wigs out inside a factory where gizmos like an employee-feeding machine may someday make the lunch hour last just 15 minutes. Bounced into the ranks of the unemployed, he teams with a street waif (Paulette Goddard) to pursue bliss and a paycheck finding misadventures as a roller-skating night watchman,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Provides a detailed account of the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers in 1911, and examines the impact of this event on the nation's working conditions and labor laws.
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Panda, Zebra, and Penguin invite the reader to tour a factory where messes, color, and surprises are forbidden but an accident occurs and the reader must help clean it up.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a suspicious accident occurs at the famous Dinsmore Chocolate Factory in Sinclair, Kansas, Caroline Lang goes undercover as a factory worker to investigate the circumstances surrounding the event and how the factory treats its youngest employees—the child workers. Caroline’s fervent faith, her difficult childhood, and compassionate heart drove her to her job as an investigator for the Labor Commission and she is compelled to see children...
9) New in town
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
[Fullscreen ed.]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Full-screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlie and five others draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy factory that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 27
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
95 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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. Includes directions for making some simple Christmas decorations.
12) Uprising
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World
Pub. Date
p2004
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 7 hr.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm. + 1 AAA battery.
Language
English
Description
Contains two stories that follow the adventures of young Charlie Bucket after he competes for and wins a magical candy factory from the eccentric Willy Wonka.
16) Extract
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joel is the owner of an extract manufacturing plant who constantly finds himself in precarious situations that steadily worsen by the minute. First, his soon-to-be floor manager acquires a serious injury in a machine malfunctioning accident. This subsequently endangers the wellbeing of his company. Second, his personal life doesn't fair much better when he takes his bartending friend Dean's advice while in a drug-induced brainstorming session on how...
17) Machines
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2016, [2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
A documentary which provides a tour of an enormous textile factory in Gujarat, India where the workers spend 12-hour days among the machines and chemicals.
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