Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Uprising / Subtitle on cover: Three young women caught in the fire that changed America Margaret Peterson Haddix. - New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007. - 346 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

In 1927, at the urging of twenty one year old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes

Young Adult Follett Library Resources

9781416911715 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1416911715 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781428764644 (Follett bdg.) 142876464X (Follett bdg.)

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Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Juvenile fiction.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911--Fiction.


Immigrants--Juvenile fiction.
Factories--Juvenile fiction.
Labor disputes--Juvenile fiction.
Strikes and lockouts--Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Factories--Fiction.
Labor disputes--Fiction.
Strikes and lockouts--Fiction.


New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PZ7.H1164 / Upr 2007

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