Lucy fights the flames, a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire survival story, by Julie Gilbert ; illustrated by Alessia Trunfio
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- Juvenile works
- 1898-1951
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- Italian American girls
- Fires -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Historical fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (State) + New York
- Clothing factories
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911 -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Survival
- Immigrants
- Italian American girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction
- Clothing factories -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction
- Fires
- Survival -- Fiction
- Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911 -- Fiction
- Italian Americans -- Fiction
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Lucy fights the flames, a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire survival story, by Julie Gilbert ; illustrated by Alessia Trunfio
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
Main title
Lucy fights the flames
Oclc number
1084628037
Responsibility statement
by Julie Gilbert ; illustrated by Alessia Trunfio
Series statement
Girls survive
Sub title
a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire survival story
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
Target audience
pre adolescent
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2