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Author:

Lieurance, Suzanne.

Title:

The locket : surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist fire / .

Publisher:

Enslow Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

160 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911--Juvenile fiction.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911--Fiction.
Sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Immigrants--Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Jews--United States--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--United States--Fiction.
Labor unions--Juvenile fiction.
Labor unions--Fiction.
New York (N.Y)--History--1898-1951--Juvenile fiction.
New York (N.Y)--History--1898-1951--Fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160).

Summary:

After Galena, an eleven-year-old Russian immigrant, survives a terrible fire at the non-unionized Triangle Shirtwaist factory while her older sister and many others do not, she begins fighting for improved working conditions in New York City factories.

Series:

Historical fiction adventures.

Indexed by:

SLJ Aug 2008.

ISBN:

076602928X ((lib. bdg.) :) :
9780766029286 ((lib. bdg.) :) :

LCCN:

2007005281

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

YUPD232 -- DeWitt Community Library (De Witt)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)