When his family moves to a large rambling house in the English countryside, Daniel discovers an old stove which leads to a journey into the past, to 1835, where as a kitchen servant, he becomes involved in the local farm workers' dangerous plans to form a union.When eleven-year-old Daniel Richards, an English orphan whose kitchen job keeps him warm and well fed, helps the neighboring farm workers improve their miserable wages by illegally forming a union, he must also save his friends from imprisonment and exile
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