By Margaret Peterson Haddix
Teen Fiction - Main Level - HADDIX
This is a book about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. It is told in three voices: Bella is an immigrant teenager from Italy. She came to America in order to get a job and send money back to her starving family in Italy. Yetta is a Jewish teenager from Russia. She and her sister Rahel fled from Russia to escape the pogroms, and hope to save enough money to bring the rest of their family to America too. Jane is the daughter of a wealthy factory owner in New York. All three girls find themselves a part of the suffragist movement, and also striking for better working conditions. While this book is shelved in the Teen Zone, it is every bit as much a book for adult readers. One of the best books I've read all year!
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