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Hear My Sorrow, the Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker (Dear America)
Hear My Sorrow the Diary of Angela Denoto a Shirtwaist Worker - Dear America
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Angela and her family have arrived in New York City from their village in Italy to find themselves settled in a small tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. When her father is no longer able to work, Angela must leave school and work in a shirtwaist factory. Against the backdrop of the birth of the labor union movement in the early 1900s, An...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780439221610
ISBN-10: 0439221617
Publication Date: 10/1/2004
Pages: 192
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 16
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"Hear My Sorrow" is the diary of a young girl who works in a factory in 1909, when there were many strikes going on. I strongly encourage anyone who is curious about that time period to read this book since it paints such a beautiful and tragic picture of that time.


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