Margaret Peterson Haddix **** (5 stars!) I was looking for books on pirates for my friend and saw this. I've other fabulous books by Mrs. Haddix and thought, "If she wrote this!" When I looked into it looked amazing! And it was. This is a book I will not forget. Told from 3 very different, yet similar, teenage girls. Jane, a rich and fluffed up, Bella a forgenior from a poor town in Italy and Yetta a poor girl from Russia. How do they meet? Who might live? The tale of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory is a tragic but unbelievable true story. All the girls lose their families. Yetta and Bella are working, less than $4 a week and have trouble understanding the culture and language of the strange city of New York. They live through strikes and women's suffrage movements, harsh winters and hot summers. Coming together in a beautiful and fist clenching way I was left thinking for days about this story. It has some hard ideas it. If I you're sexist or even raciest I don't recommend this novel, or maybe I do? Will it make you even think about thinking differently? Strong middle school readers through high school-ers, boy and girls I'd pick this one up next time you stop by the library. It is historical fiction (not everything is true -read acknowledgements-) and a sad topic. But isn't life, sometimes? She'd realized that that was what she'd been doing her entire life. Her father died, and Bella went to America. Pietro vanished, and she started working two jobs. Her mother and siblings died, she joined the strike. The strike ended, and she and Yetta helped Jane. On and on and on it went; she'd had to climb back from one tradegy or setback after another. That was life. ^^ I realize that seemed long. But I felt you need to read all of it to get the full effect. You may not understand, just how well it connects, how much it means. But if you read the book, you will.
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