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Author:

Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Title:

Uprising / Margaret Peterson Haddix.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster BFYR,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

346 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants--Juvenile fiction.
Factories--Juvenile fiction.
Labor disputes--Juvenile fiction.
Strikes and lockouts--Juvenile fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Juvenile fiction.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Factories--Fiction.
Labor disputes--Fiction.
Strikes and lockouts--Fiction.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-345).

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1416911723 (pbk.)
9781416911722 (pbk.)

Locations:

SUPC124 -- Aplington Legion Memorial Library (Aplington)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XNPC367 -- Hamburg Public Library (Hamburg)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

UJPE911 -- Norwalk Easter Public Library (Norwalk)

VQPC384 -- Reinbeck Public Library (Reinbeck)

BXPC851 -- Roland Public Library (Roland)

ENPC715 -- Sanborn Public Library (Sanborn)

GPPC641 -- Gutekunst Public Library (State Center)

ZOPC437 -- Woodbine Carnegie Public Library (Woodbine) — Y JF