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Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2007

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Haddix 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAD

Gilbert, Julie

Summary: It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GIL

Marrin, Albert.

Summary: Describes the conditions in the textile industry in the early 20th century behind the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company that led to the death of many young women, and explains its impact on the labor movement and on society.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 MAR

Von Drehle, Dave.

Summary: Describes the 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, and the implications of the catastrophe for twentieth-century politics and labor relations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 VON

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