Children of Steel: Short Fiction from Our Historic Steel Mill Towns -- Jeff Manes, Paperback Danielle Smith Falling for someone almost fifteen

Falling for someone almost fifteen years older than me wasn't part of my plans

The tipping point for Anne is the declining health of her alcoholic sister

It requires us to be who we are

Age Range: 13-19

Publisher: Meerdon Publishing Inc

Children of Steel: Short Fiction from Our Historic Steel Mill Towns -- Jeff Manes, Paperback Danielle Smith Falling for someone almost fifteenIn the 20th century, a flood of Central European immigrants, southern Blacks and Latinos sought work in the steel mills, railroads, oil refineries and factories of the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and the Pittsburgh area. They settled in diverse and close knit neighborhoods where ethnic traditions were hardcoded into everyday life along with pollutants that wafted over all, and a second and third generation followed their parents into earning a