Lucy Fights the Flames: A Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Survival Story

by Julie Gilbert

Book Overview

In 1911, fourteen-year-old Lucy Morelli lives with her parents, older brother, and several youngers siblings in a crowded apartment in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Lucy dreams of going to college, but her Italian immigrant family relies heavily on her income from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory to survive. Lucy finds the factory work boring, but the working conditions are better than many other jobs. But when Lucy and her best...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496584481
• ISBN13: 9781496584489
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Stone Arch Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7