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[2013]
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Joe Mantonio is thirteen, and he's tough. He works in the coal mines with his pa. He makes ten cents an hours. That's not much, but it sure beats going to school and facing smart-aleck Arnie. Of course, his baseball pal Eddie is also hitting eighth-grade this year and then there's Moira. She is pretty and smart, too. It's September 1913 in the beautiful, cool Colorado mountains. But there is no "good life" in the mining camps near Ludlow. ...