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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.

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.

This is a book I really enjoyed because of the discriptive words used to explain what is happening are used in a very good way.

Nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin eagerly helps her cousin Ana, newly arrived from Russia, to adjust to life in New York City, but when their teacher says the two must sing together at a school assembly, Rebecca worries that her big moment will be ruined.

Conflict and resentments break out in a small Adirondack town in the fall of 1916 when Miles Fairchild, a wealthy resident living in a "cure cottage" while being treated for tuberculosis, decides to start a discussion group with patients--mostly poor European immigrants--confined in the state-run sanatorium.

Centers around the affair of a middle-aged Irish burglar and a young girl named Beverly Penn, who is dying of consumption in a mansion on the Upper West Side of New York City.

The lives of three remarkable families become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.

As a young Irish immigrant boy travels by steam-engine across the American prairie to a new life, memories of the old country pull at his heart.

The irrepressible Jacky Faber, recently arrived in Boston, finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and local residents angry at the arrival of hundreds of Irish immigrants on a ship owned by Faber Shipping Worldwide.

Fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life takes a dramatic turn when, in 1903, his parents turn their Brooklyn apartment into a factory for making teddy bears.

Story of Maria and her journey from Poland to New York, where she finds a job and rejoins her husband, Leo.

On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz.

After having escaped with his family from Nazi-occupied France, Gustave finds a home in New York City, still worried about Marcel, his good friend who he left behind, and surprised to find bigotry in America, too.

Tells the story of "Hanna, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America.

"In 1863, twelve-year-old Danny and his older sister Kathleen arrive in New York City to start a new life, but they soon find themselves navigating through the same prejudices and struggles they experienced in Ireland"--OCLC.