Threads and flames

By Esther M. Friesner

Subjects: Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911) fast (OCoLC)fst01355168, Immigrants, Immigrants in fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Jews, fiction, Shtetls, Historical fiction, Voyages and travels, Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Fiction, Despair, Sick, Triangle Shirtwaist Company in fiction, Sisters, Jews in fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fire, 1911, History, Hope, Jews, New york (n.y.), fiction, Exploitation, Labor movement

Description: 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.