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Boy of the Deeps by Ian Wallace

cweichel's review

3.0

Young boy in Cape Breton sets off on his first day in the mines. Wallace provides a lot of detail about what it was like to have to work far underground below the Atlantic ocean digging for coal. Unfortunately there is a cave in on the first day, but the boy and his father manage to escape. While I liked this book enough, I thought it's glorified a really dangerous profession. It would work as an introduction, but I would like students to know more about how workers join together to make jobs like this safer.