1898-1951

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1898-1951

Uprising

In 1927, 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.

Snow white

2016
"The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins, brave protectors for a girl as pure as snow; and a mysterious stock ticker that holds the stepmother in its thrall, churning out ticker tape imprinted with the wicked words 'Another ... More Beautiful ... KILL'"--Amazon.com.

Audacity

2016
"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York"--Provided by publisher.

Blizzard of the Blue Moon

Magic Tree House #36
2006
The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn.

The Diviners

2013
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.

Building the Empire State Building

an interactive engineering adventure
"Explores various perspectives on the process of building the Empire State Building. The reader's choices reveal the historical details"--.

The gallery

2016
In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.

Lair of dreams

a Diviners novel
2015
"After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner and has become a media darling. In the meantime, a mysterious sleeping sickness has hit New York City, and the Diviners must band together to find the cause and the cure"--.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

a history perspectives book
2015
Fact-based narratives examine the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911 that killed 146 female workers.

Timeless

2012
Forced to live with her wealthy, estranged grandparents in New York City after her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Michele retreats to her room where she finds a diary that transports her back to 1910 -- with life-changing consequences.

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