Touched by fire
By: Irene N. Watts
Publisher: Tundra Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Plattsburgh, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781770495241
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Immigrants; Fire, 1911; Fiction; Triangle Shirtwaist Company; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Description: Escaping the pogroms of Russia and leaving the anti-Semitism in Berlin, Germany for America, fourteen-year-old Miriam and her family seek employment on the Lower East Side in New York, and Miriam becomes a cuff setter at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory where her life is changed by the 1911 factory fire.

Miriam, a fourteen-year-old Russian immigrant in 1910, gets a job at the Triangle Shirt Waist Company. As she is finishing work on March 25, 1911, a fire begins in the factory, and she struggles to escape. The plot contains racial slurs.
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