Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch

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Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch

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Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch

When Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, she is looking for a land of opportunities; what she finds is far from all she'd dreamed. Stubborn and tenacious, she refuses to give up. Left alone to fend for herself and her younger sister, Rose is thrust into a hard-knock life of tenements and factory work.

But even as she struggles, Rose finds small bright points in her new life--at the movies with her working friends and in the honest goals of her mentor, Gussie. Still, after her exhausting days as a working girl, Rose must face the confusion of balancing her need for simple fun with her more wary feelings about joining Gussie in her fight for better working conditions.

When the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 rushes into Rose's life, her confusions are brought to an all-too-painful head. To whom and to what can she turn when everything around her is in ashes?

Sharp, poignant, and stirringly real, MJ Auch has written a powerful historical novel that is hard to put down.

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ISBN 13 9780805066869
ISBN 10 0805066861
Title Ashes of Roses
Author Mary Jane Auch
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Publisher Henry Holt & Company
Year published 2002-05-01
Number of pages 256
Prizes Short-listed for Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2005, Short-listed for Georgia Children's Book Award (Children's Book) 2005, Short-listed for Virginia Readers Choice Award (High School) 2005, Short-listed for Iowa Teen Award 2006, Short-listed for Black-Eyed Susan Award (High School) 2004, Short-listed for Grand Canyon Reader Award (Teen) 2007, Short-listed for Land of Enchantment Book Award (Young Adult) 2005, Short-listed for Sequoyah Book Awards (Young Adult) 2004
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