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Touched by fire
Title:
Touched by fire
Author:
Watts, Irene N.
Personal Author:
Watts, Irene N.
Publication Information:
Toronto : Tundra Books, [2013]

©2013
Physical Description:
197 pages ; 20 cm
Summary:
Fleeing the pograms in Russia and European anti-Semitism, teenaged Miriam arrives in America only to face anti-immigrant discrimination before landing a job in a clothing factory and witnessing the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
Language:
English
Reading Level:
Grades 5-9.

710 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.8 7.0 166637.
Corporate Subject:
Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911 -- Fiction.

Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911 -- Juvenile fiction.
Subject Term:
Pogroms -- Ukraine -- Juvenile fiction.

Antisemitism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction.

Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Young adult fiction -- 21st century.

Jews -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Pogroms -- Juvenile fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile fiction.

Fires -- Juvenile fiction.

Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction.

Jews -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Geographic Term:
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Juvenile fiction.

Ukraine -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787

Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637

Historical fiction.
ISBN:
9781770495241
Format :
Book

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