Lucy fights the flames : a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory survival story

Gilbert, Julie, 1976- author.

Book 2020

It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work-- but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as fire sweeps through the locked down factory trapping...

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