Title: Joshua's song
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.
Subjects: Child labor, Fiction, Molasses, Newspaper carriers, Disasters, History, Large type books, Children's fiction, Disasters, fiction, Boston (mass.), fiction
Places: Boston (Mass.)
Time periods: 20th century