Joshua's song
By: Joan Hiatt Harlow.
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Newspaper carriers -- Fiction; Child labor -- Fiction; Disasters -- Fiction; Molasses -- Fiction; 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.