"In From Cotton to T-Shirt, early fluent readers learn how a T-shirt is made, from cotton harvesting to producing fabric to consumers picking a shirt out in a store. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about how this item gets to their closets. An infographic illustrates the cycle with real photos and descriptions. Children can learn more about T-shirts using our safe search engine that provides...

It's 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12 Grace and her best friend Arthur must go to work in the mill, helping their mothers work the looms. Together Grace and Arthur write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in the mill. A few weeks later, Lewis Hine, a famous reformer arrives undercover to gather evidence. Grace meets him and appears in some of his photographs, changing her life forever.

Based on powerful true stories, The Mill continues its tale of British workers in 1838 at the time of the industrial revolution - a revolution that would build an empire for the bosses and a new world of unionized labor and the vote for the workers. First, there is much to be done. A girl afraid to stand up for her rights, young Esther Price (Kerrie Hayes) almost loses her job, but instead finds herself negotiating her freedom. Regardless, the future...

Traces the journey of cotton from the plants, through the cotton gin and the spinning mill where it is made into thread, to the loom where it is woven into cloth, and finally to the clothing factory where it is sewn into pants.

Surveys the history, growth cycle, processing, and varied uses of one of the world's most important fiber plants.