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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island boardwalk freak show that amazes and stimulates the crowds. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her fathers "museum," alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl, and a one-hundred-year-old turtle. One night Coralie stumbles upon a striking young man photographing moonlit trees in the woods off the...
2) Dreamland
Author
Series
City of fire trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A novel on turn-of-the century New York, portraying its various faces. The cast includes a Jewish seamstress who rebels against her rabbi father to become a union organizer, an Irish-American senator who rules the city with the help of corrupt police, and Freud who gives his views on crass America. By the author of Sometimes You See It Coming.
3) Uprising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as fire sweeps through the locked down factory trapping the...
5) Blythewood
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Avaline Hall has been sent to the elite Blythewood Academy, the school her mother was expelled from before her suicide. Determined to find the link between her mother's death and the disappearance of several students from the school, Avaline is learning that the school is definitely not what it seems. Discovering new extraordinary powers within herself, the more Avaline digs for the truth, the closer she comes to danger.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After Galena, an eleven-year-old Russian immigrant, survives a terrible fire at the non-unionized Triangle Shirtwaist factory while her older sister and many others do not, she begins fighting for improved working conditions in New York City factories.
8) Lost
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1911 New York, sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld must stop taking care of her irrepressible six-year-old sister when she goes to work at the Triangle Waist Company, where she befriends a missing heiress who is in hiding from her family and who seems to understand the feelings of heartache and grief that Essie is trying desperately to escape.
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