TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - German Americans
KW - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
KW - immigrants
KW - trade unions
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Polish Americans
KW - Russian Americans
KW - nickelodeons
KW - Slovak Americans
KW - Carpatho-Rusyn Americans
KW - Carnegie Steel Company
KW - Czech Americans
KW - Hungarian Americans
KW - Orthodox Christians
KW - Scottish Americans
KW - United States Steel
KW - Duquesne Steel Works
KW - steel industry
KW - priests
AU - Gloria Skurzynski
AB - Three teenage boys in the fictional mill town of Canaan struggle to find jobs, girlfriends, and the American Dream.
C1 - <p>1911-2</p>
C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Duquesne; Braddock; Homestead; McKeesport; Clairton; Pittsburgh; Downtown; W. Mifflin; Kennywood Park
C4 - Children’s; Historical; Labor
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Duquesne is disguised as Canaan.
N2 - Three teenage boys in the fictional mill town of Canaan struggle to find jobs, girlfriends, and the American Dream.
PB - Clarion Books
PP - New York
PY - 1983
RN - Gloria Skurzynski (1930— ), educated at Duquesne High School and Carlow College, was born the daughter of a steelworker in Duquesne, Allegheny County. “As a child, I thought the smell of mill smoke in the air was natural and rather pleasant.” She's written more than 60 books for kids.
EP - 178 p.
TI - The Tempering
ER -