The Mill Girls

Seventeen-year-old Abby Mott arrives at the Lowell cotton mills carrying her family's last hope: earn enough wages to save their failing New Hampshire farm before the bank forecloses in spring. But when a fellow operative's hand is crushed by a machine the company refused to repair, Abby begins secretly documenting the mill's dangerous conditions for a legislative hearing. With her sister hiding a ruinous secret and the corporation threatening to destroy anyone who speaks, Abby must choose between her family's survival and the truth that could change everything.