East Side Story (Stories of the States)

By Bonnie Bader

Subjects: 4.9., Factories, Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Labor disputes, Fiction, Strikes and lockouts, Accelerated Reader, Sisters, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: A young girl and her older sister, working in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, an early twentieth-century sweatshop on the Lower East Side of New York City, join a protest to try to improve the miserable working conditions.