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Author Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Title Uprising / Margaret Peterson Haddix.

Edition First paperback edition.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2011.
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Teen Fiction  TEEN HADDIX    IN TRANSIT +1 HOLD
 Nichols Teen Fiction  TEEN HADDIX    AVAILABLE
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Description 346 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-345).
Audience 12 and up.
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. Includes historical notes.
Subject Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Factories -- Fiction.
Labor disputes -- Fiction.
Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911 -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
Genre Young adult fiction.
ISBN 9781416911722 (pbk.)
1416911723 (pbk.)
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October 14 2011
SRP 2011 REVIEW: It made me read it in one sitting
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