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Rachel and the riot

by Susan Martins Miller

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When, in 1889, the streetcar drivers of Minneapolis, Minnesota, decide to strike for better wages, ten-year-old Rachel finds that the increasingly violent rift between labor and management is causing bitter divisions among her family and friends.

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