The Breaker Boys
by Pat Hughes
The son of a wealthy Pennsylvania coal mine operator, Nate Tanner resents being... read more
- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2004
Word Count 55,340
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 640L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 82262
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- History
- Coal mines and mining--Fiction
- Fathers and sons--Fiction
- Coal mines and mining
- Coal miners--Fiction
- Pennsylvania
- Stepfamilies
- Immigrants
- Labor movement--Fiction
- Fathers and sons
- Pennsylvania--History--1865---Fiction
- Stepfamilies--Fiction
- 1865-
- Labor movement
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- Coal miners
- Immigrants--Fiction
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