TY - SER
KW - Italian Americans
KW - immigrants
KW - farms
KW - friendship
KW - coal industry
AU - Richard Easton
AB - Eleven-year-old Nathan McClelland’s small farming community is transformed into a mining town flush with immigrants. Despite his family’s warnings, Nathan befriends Arturo Tozzi, an Italian boy who works alongside his father and brother in the mine, and vows to help him become “a real American.” The novel takes place in Manorville in fictitious Gallatin County, likely a stand-in for Fayette County.
C1 - 1890s
C3 - Fayette County; Connellsville
C4 - Children’s; Historical; Immigrant; Labor
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Eleven-year-old Nathan McClelland’s small farming community is transformed into a mining town flush with immigrants. Despite his family’s warnings, Nathan befriends Arturo Tozzi, an Italian boy who works alongside his father and brother in the mine, and vows to help him become “a real American.” The novel takes place in Manorville in fictitious Gallatin County, likely a stand-in for Fayette County.
PB - Clarion Books
PP - New York
PY - 2002
RN - Richard F. Easton, educated at the University of Virginia and the University of Notre Dame, is English professor emeritus at Washington & Jefferson College.
EP - 160 p.
TI - A Real American
ER -