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Threads and flames / Esther Friesner

Author: Friesner, Esther M.
Published: New York : Viking, 2010.
Printed in USA.
Physical Description: 390 pages ; 22 cm
Additional Creators: Kim, Sam, Viking, and Penguin Group

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Summary

After recovering from typhus, thirteen-year-old Raisa leaves her Polish shtetl for America to join her older sister, and goes to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.

Subject(s)

Triangle Shirtwaist Company—Fire, 1911—Juvenile fiction
Triangle Shirtwaist Company—Fire, 1911—Fiction
Immigrants—Juvenile fiction
Jews—United States—Juvenile fiction
Sick—Juvenile fiction
Shtetls—Juvenile fiction
Voyages and travels—Juvenile fiction
Sisters—Juvenile fiction
Hope—Juvenile fiction
Despair—Juvenile fiction
Exploitation—Juvenile fiction
Labor movement—Juvenile fiction
Immigrants—Fiction
Jews—United States—Fiction
New York (N.Y.)—History—1898-1951—Juvenile fiction
New York (N.Y.)—History—1898-1951—Fiction

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ISBN

9780670012459
0670012459

Note

Baldwin Library copy signed by the author.
"An imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc."--t.p.
"Book design by Sam Kim"--t.p. verso.

Awards

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011

View MARC record | catkey: 9365185

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