Books with author Ann Blackbourn

Joe Mantonio is thirteen, and he's tough. He works in the coal mines with his pa. He makes ten cents an hour as a trapper boy. That's not much, but it sure beats going to school and facing smart-aleck Arnie. Of course, his baseball pal Eddie is also hitting eighth grade this year...and then there's Moira, fresh from Wales. She's awful pretty and smart, too.It's September 1913 in the beautiful, cool Colorado mountains. But there is no "good life" in the mining camps near Ludlow. Life is hard for the Mantonios...but it's going to turn deadly as they struggle to survive the bitter coal miners' strike and the disastrous Ludlow massacre that follows. Historical fiction.