Uprising (novel)

Uprising is a novel for young people written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007.

Plot

Bella, newly arrived in New York from Italy, gets a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. There, along with hundreds of other immigrants, she works long hours at a grueling job under terrible conditions. Yetta, a coworker from Russia, has been crusading for a union. When factory conditions worsen, workers rise up in a strike. Wealthy Jane learns of the workers and becomes involved with their cause.

Bella and Yetta are at work and Jane is visiting the factory on March 25, 1911, when a spark ignites some cloth and the building is engulfed in fire, leading to one of the worst workplace disasters in history (the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire) In the end, only one of the girls lives to tell of the story of her friends and the terrible occurrences of March 25, 1911. The story is based on the true events that happened in 1911 at the Triangle Shirt Waist factory.

References

Novels by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Shadow Children sequence	Among the Hidden (1998) · Among the Impostors (2001) · Among the Betrayed (2002) · Among the Barons (2003) · Among the Brave (2004) · Among the Enemy (2005) · Among the Free (2006) · Characters

The Missing series	Found (2008) · Sent (2009) · Sabotaged (2010) · Torn (2011)

Other	Running Out of Time (1995) · Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey (1996) · Leaving Fishers (1997) · Just Ella (1999) · Turnabout (2000) · The Girl With 500 Middle Names (2001) · Takeoffs and Landings (2001) · Because of Anya (2002) · Escape from Memory (2003) · Say What (2004) · The House on the Gulf (2004) · Double Identity (2005) · Dexter the Tough (2007) · Uprising (2007) · Palace of Mirrors (2008) · Claim to Fame (2009) · Into the Gauntlet (2010)