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.

Wilson's Junior High School, November 2008 School Library Journal, September 2007 Publisher's Weekly, September 2007 Booklist, September 2007 Horn Book, April 2008 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2007 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2008 Kirkus Review, September 2007 Library Media Connection, January 2008 Multicultural Review, March 2008

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



1416911715

2006034870


Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fiction.


Immigrants--Fiction.
Factories--Fiction.
Labor disputes--Fiction.
Strikes--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


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

PZ7.H1164 / Upr 2007

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