Joshua's song
By: Joan Hiatt Harlow.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Waterville, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Large type books; Newspaper carriers -- Fiction; Child labor -- Fiction; Disasters -- Fiction; Molasses -- Fiction; Large type books; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, thirteen-year-old Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2002.