East Side Story
by Bader, Bonnie
Series:Stories of the States
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AR Book Level
4.1
AR Points
2
Word Count
11,531
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
17615 EN
About this book
East Side Story, set in the early 1900s on the Lower East Side of New York City, follows a young Russian immigrant girl and her older sister who work in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory sweatshop. The two sisters join a protest with other workers to try to improve the miserable working conditions in the factory. Through their activism, the Russian girl befriends an Italian immigrant classmate, highlighting the friendships that formed among diverse immigrant communities during this period.