Touched by Fire Format: Hardback

Description: Let them burn. They're a lot of cattle anyway.
A factory-owner's response regarding the use of fire drills in March 1911.

     Touched by Fire, Irene N. Watt's exquisite new novel, explores one family's journey as they flee from the pogroms of Russia in 1905, where the Cossacks burn villages to the ground, to Berlin, Germany, where Jews have a hard time living and working in peace, to the streets of the Lower East Side in New York. Teenage Miriam gives a first-hand account of the excitement everyone feels about going to America, the Golden Land, the journey in steerage, the arrival at Ellis Island, and the discrimination the immigrants feel while seeking employment. When Miriam finally lands a job at the Triangle Shirt Waist Company as a cuff setter, she believes her future in the New World is finally secure. But on March 25, 1911, the fire that starts from overflowing bins of material scraps rages into what becomes known as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and Miriam's life is forever changed.

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Narrative Type: book

Type: book

Book Title: Touched by Fire

Number of Pages: 208 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Tundra Book Group

Publication Year: 2013

Topic: Historical / United States / 20th Century, Historical / Holocaust, General, People & Places / Europe, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes)

Item Height: 1 in

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Juvenile Fiction

Item Weight: 10.9 Oz

Author: Irene N. Watts

Item Length: 7.5 in

Item Width: 5.4 in

Format: Hardcover