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These are the most recent 10 blog posts about Weary Work and Lousy Leisure in JacketFlap's Children's Publishing Blog Reader

Subjects

• Child labor
• Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
• Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
• Children's Studies
• Children: Grades 4-6
• Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
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• History
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile Nonfiction
• Leisure
• Nonfiction
• Social Issues - General
• Social Science - Customs, Traditions, Anthropology

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Editions

• Weary Work and Lousy Leisure (Raintree Freestyle: A Painful History of Childhood) (Raintree Freestyle: A Painful History of Childhood)
  Raintree Publishers, Paperback, 2007
• Weary Work and Lousy Leisure (A Painful History of Childhood)
  Raintree, Hardcover, 2007
• Weary Work and Lousy Leisure (A Painful History of Childhood)
  Heinemann-Raintree, Hardcover, 2007
• Weary Work and Lousy Leisure (Raintree Freestyle: A Painful History of Childhood) (Raintree Freestyle: A Painful History of Childhood)
  Raintree Publishers, Hardcover, 2006

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