Uprising
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Around her the workers were screaming out prayers and curses…. She herself was sobbing tearlessly….Her only prayer was still, “I don’t want to die.” Oh, please, God, don’t let me die, she thought. I’ve never even had a chance to live.Bella, newly arrived in New York from Italy, gets a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. There, along with hundreds of other immigrant….Read More
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