Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Uprising / Margaret Peterson Haddix. - New York, : Scholastic, [2009], c2007. - 346p. ; 20 cm.

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.

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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.

PZ7.H1164 / Upr 2007

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