Hear my sorrow : the diary of Angela Denoto, a shirtwaist worker /
by Deborah Hopkinson.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Scholastic, 2004.
- 188 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Dear America .
"New York City, 1909"--Cover.
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.
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Factories--Fiction. Labor disputes--Fiction. Immigrants--Fiction. Italian Americans--Fiction. Diaries--Fiction. Historical fiction.