Uprising
- ISBN-10
- 1416911715
- ISBN-13
- 9781416911715
- Series
- Uprising
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 346
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-09-25
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
Description
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 bestfriends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.
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