Ashes of roses

About this book

in 1914, Rose Nolan and her family come to America from Ireland. After some of the family has to be sent back, the rest of her family moves in with her uncle and live there. The book is focused through her point of view. It centers her life as a worker at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory.

Subjects

• children's fiction
• emigration and immigration
• emigration and immigration, fiction
• fiction
• fire, 1911
• history
• immigrants
• irish americans
• irish americans, fiction
• juvenile fiction
• new york (n.y.), fiction
• triangle shirtwaist company