Suzanne Lieurance
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards. Includes section about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.