Paterson has created characters kids can understand and identify with, using an historic setting that makes this a book ideal for both Language Arts and Social Studies. In addition to writing, Paterson says that one of her most important activities is her service on the board of the advocacy group The National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance (NCBLA). These two characters meet and offer two different perspectives of many issues including, labor unions, working conditions, child labor, education, and immigration. Her most recent book, Bread and Roses, Too, is a novel inspired by the famous 1912 mill strike in Massachusetts. Jake, a few years older than Rosa, works in the mill to support himself and his alcoholic father and cannot go to school. While they join in solidarity, the labor strike, Rosa worries about their safety and how her family will survive with no income.
Rosa, an Italian immigrant lives in tenement housing with her baby brother, widowed mother and older sister who both work in the mills. is the setting for this novel written for young adults.
“The famous ‘Bread and Roses’ strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Mass. With two teenagers as the protagonists, Paterson introduces the reader to the IWW, major figures such as Big Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, multi-nationality worker solidarity, the role of labor songs, and the various tactics used by the company to undermine the strike. A moving story based on a major strike in Lawrence, Mass. 2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder AwardRosas mother is singing again, for the first time since Papa died in an accident in the mills.
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