Uprising
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780545233576
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Immigrants; Factories; Labor disputes; Strikes and lockouts; Fire, 1911; History; Fiction; Triangle Shirtwaist Company; Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911) fast (OCoLC)fst01355168
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007.

12 and up.