Uprising

By Laurie Halse Anderson

This historical fiction novel by the author of Speak, Wintergirls, & Fever 1793,  tells the story of three girls that work or are involved with the factory.  Most of the girls who worked there were poor immigrants.  In 1911, a blaze broke out, and created one of the worst factory fires in the 20th century.  Here is a link to a web tour of this event:  http://www.dol.gov/shirtwaist/

The book is phenomenal, like so much of Anderson’s work, but it is not for the faint of heart.  Anderson has a way of capturing the reader and not letting them out of a book unaffected.