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Author Gilbert, Julie, 1976- author.

Title Lucy fights the flames : a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory survival story / by Julie Gilbert ; illustrated by Alessia Trunfio.

Publication Info. North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint, [2020]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1976036~S1
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 Nichols Juvenile Fiction  J GIRLS    AVAILABLE
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Description 103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Series Girls Survive
Girls survive.
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 fire sweeps through the locked down factory trapping the workers inside.
Audience 590L Lexile
Note 590L Lexile
Subject Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911 -- Juvenile fiction.
Fires -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Clothing factories -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.
Italian American girls -- Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.
Survival -- Juvenile fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Added Author Trunfio, Alessia, 1990- illustrator.
ISBN 9781496583864 (hardcover)
9781496584489 (pbk.)
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