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Ashes of roses /

Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Auch, Mary Jane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : H. Holt, 2002.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Triangle Shirtwaist Company > Fire, 1911 > Juvenile fiction.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company > Fire, 1911 > Fiction.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Irish Americans > Fiction.
Emigration and immigration > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951 > Fiction.
Description
Summary:Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
Physical Description:250 pages ; 22 cm.
Awards:American Library Association-YA, 2003.
Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies, 2003.
ISBN:0805066861 (alk. paper)