Description
A Junior Library Guild Selection.
With thousands of men off fighting within the Civil War, the federal government hired girls and women–some as young as ten–to make millions of rounds of ammunition. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the cost for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of those workers were killed, blown up and burned beyond recognition.
As Steve Sheinkin did with The Port Chicago 50, Tanya Anderson in Gunpowder Girls tells an important war story that in any case gives its subjects their due. Hidden history comes alive through number one-source research and page-turning narrative.
Gunpowder Girls is a story of kid labor and immigrant hopes and the harsh, endless demands of an all-consuming war.