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  • Yossi's goal
    Auteur:
    Schwartz, Ellen
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    Yossi Mendelsohn works hard to help his family survive after they flee Russia to find a better life in Montreal. He sells newspapers and carries bundles from the garment factory. Yossi longs to play "le hockey" with the French boys, but...
  • The girl who wrote loneliness
    Auteur:
    Sin, Kyŏng-suk
    Sommaire:

    A teenage girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory by day and struggles through night school to achieve her dream of becoming a writer. This complex and nuanced coming-of-age story is set against the backdrop of Korea's industrial...
  • Made in China : a memoir of love and labor
    Auteur:
    Qu, Anna
    Sommaire:

    A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future. As a teen, Anna Qu is...
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