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.
year: 2008
call number/section: 2008, 1000
subjects: sisters, juvenile fiction, labor unions, immigrants, jews, united states, fiction, new york (n.y.), history, 1898-1951, juvenile fiction, fiction, triangle shirtwaist company, fire, 1911, fiction, juvenile fiction, historical fiction, adventure fiction
Editions
Lieurance, Suzanne
Enslow Publishers (2008)
Eleven-year-old Galena, a Russian immigrant begins fighting for improved working conditions in New York City's factories after a terrible fire claims the lives of over 140 workers at the non-unionized Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
Schools: 3
Lieurance, Suzanne
Eleven-year-old Galena, a Russian immigrant begins fighting for improved working conditions in New York City's factories after a terrible fire claims the lives of over 140 workers at the non-unionized Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
Schools: 6
Lieurance, Suzanne
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.
Schools: 1