Ashes of roses

By Mary Jane Auch

Subjects: Irish americans, fiction, Immigrants, Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, Irish Americans, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fire, 1911, History, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: in 1914, Rose Nolan and her family come to America from Ireland. After some of the family has to be sent back, the rest of her family moves in with her uncle and live there. The book is focused through her point of view. It centers her life as a worker at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.