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The Locket
Galena, an eleven-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant, lives in New York City with her family and works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory with her older sister Anya. The factory pays low wages and has terrible working conditions, making Anya yearn to join a union. Soon a horrible fire guts the factory leaving Galena with painful, horrific memories. Readers follow author Suzanne Lieurance in this dramatic historical fiction novel, as she describes how Galena uses the support of friends, family, and Jewish traditions to inspire her to fight for workers' rights.
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The new Historical Fiction Adventures series designed for grades three through six brings American history to life through fictional characters and historically accurate plots. The Locket turns the real life tragedy of March 25, 1911, into a story of survival instead of death and hopelessness. Galena, an 11-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant, works at the non-unionized Triangle Shirtwaist Factory with her older sister when a fire breaks out. The female workers are unable to escape to safety. Galena survives, but others do not, including her sister. After losing her sister and watching the horrendous events take place that day, Galena starts to fight to improve the working conditions in the New York City factories.
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