Title: Rettie and the Ragamuffin Parade
Description: In 1918 a deadly influenza was sweeping across America. The pandemic ravaged families, leaving thousands of children orphans. But in the tenement apartments of New York City's Lower East Side, one young girl is determined to keep her family safe.
Subjects: History, Families, Poverty, Juvenile fiction, Thanksgiving Day, Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919, Children's fiction, Poverty, fiction, Family life, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 20th century