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