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Author:

Gilbert, Julie, 1976- author.

Title:

Lucy fights the flames : a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire survival story / by Julie Gilbert ; illustrated by Alessia Trunfio.

Publisher:

Stone Arch Books,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

103 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Subject:

Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911--Juvenile fiction.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911--Fiction.
Fires--New York--New York--History--Juvenile fiction.
Clothing factories--New York--New York--Juvenile fiction.
Italian American girls--Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants--New York--New York--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
Italian Americans--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Juvenile fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Other Authors:

Trunfio, Alessia, 1990- illustrator.

Summary:

It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as fire sweeps through the locked down factory trapping the workers inside.

Series:

Girls survive

ISBN:

1496584481
9781496584489
1496583868
9781496583864 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2019003165

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