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02793aam a2200481Ii 4500 001 E008B794BCB511EDBE0894C944ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230307010117 008 221116t20222022caua d 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1668870614 020 $a 9781668870617 020 $a 1595801189 020 $a 9781595801180 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a PZ7.1 $b .Q35 2022 082 04 $a [Fic] $2 23/eng/20221020 100 1 $a Quezon, Lynn Ng, $e author. 245 10 $a Mattie and the machine / $c by Lynn Ng Quezon. 246 30 $a Mattie & the machine. 264 1 $a Solana Beach, CA : $b Santa Monica Press Teen, $c [2022] 300 $a 263 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a Includes an Appendix with United States patent documents for Margaret E. Knight's bag machine (pages 259-264). 520 $a "Mattie and the Machine is a fictionalized yet historically accurate account of Margaret E. Knight's fight to obtain recognition as a 19th century female inventor (she would eventually be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006). Fifteen-year-old Mattie is a mechanic at Columbia Paper's bag factory. With sales booming after the Civil War, her boss expands the formerly all-female workforce by hiring his old Army comrades, including the mechanic Frank. Sparks instantly fly between Mattie and Frank, and their romance has Mattie walking on air -- until she learns Frank and all of the other men are paid more than Mattie and her female counterparts. The boss's rationale? Men are naturally better with machines. Determined to prove him wrong, Mattie proposes a bet: If she can build a machine that fully automates their paper-bag-making process, the women will receive equal pay. If she fails, she'll resign as mechanic. The boss accepts, with one condition: Frank will also build a machine, and Mattie's must beat his." -- Page 4 of cover. 600 10 $a Knight, Margaret E., $d 1838-1914 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Children as inventors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Looms $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Factories $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Inventors $z United States $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Equal pay for equal work $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $x Employment $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Patents $z United States $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Knight, Margaret E., $d 1838-1914 $v Juvenile fiction. 650 0 $a Children as inventors $v Juvenile fiction. 650 0 $a Looms $v Juvenile fiction. 650 0 $a Young adult fiction. 650 1 $a Children as inventors $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Looms $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 2 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032649.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230307010633.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E008B794BCB511EDBE0894C944ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search