Hannah and her two sisters live with their aunts in Boston while their parents are in Europe. This gentle and heartfelt story that draws the reader into the 1918 Influenza epidemic is another reason to read all of Hesse’s books. 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. From CIP: In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. This book goes into a bit more about the working conditions. Haddix offers her rendition of the Triangle Waist Factory fire. This is one of the best written for the YA audience. There are several historical fiction books written about this tragic event.
Many chose to jump to their death rather than be burned alive. The Triangle Factory Fire claimed 146 lives, most were immigrant girls, in just a few minutes when a fire swept through the factory. They experience aftershocks, explosions, and fire with many narrow escapes. They make their way to Golden Gate Park where they camp with other survivors.
The earthquake strikes and the girls are separated from Edith’s father. Told through the eyes of Edith’s maid, they arrive in San Francisco for a quick stop before proceeding to Paris. Kristiana Gregory – Earthquake at Dawn 1906īased on photographer Edith Irvine’s experiences during the massive San Francisco earthquake, the novel moves very briskly. This book is a must-read for Texans and for anyone looking for an action-packed disaster themed story. After the hurricane, he and his mother and siblings walked all the way to relatives in San Antonio. His father was a fisherman, lost at sea during the storm. I especially liked this book because my great grandfather and his mother rode out the Galveston storm in a neighbor’s attic.
The author made me feel like I was back in the middle of a monster storm. Raised in Corpus Christi and Houston TX, I had my share of hurricanes. So well described, it felt like I was in the middle of a hurricane again. The story moves swiftly, introducing characters that the reader can identify with and care about when the storm hits. Then the devastating hurricane hits and 8,000 people are killed. He gets a job as a carpenter’s apprentice and begins to settle in to the Galveston way of life. Seth’s family moves to Galveston in 1900 to take advantage of the booming economy.
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