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To See the Stars

Created by: Jan Andrews
Artist: Tara Bryan
Publisher: Running the Goat
SKU: RG0024

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A compelling story of one young Newfoundland woman caught up in the struggle for women?s and workers’ rights in the sweatshops of New York City’s garment district in the early 1900s.

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In her deeply-affecting final novel, acclaimed children’s writer and storyteller Jan Andrews gives us Edie Murphy – an indomitable and engaging heroine on the cusp of womanhood. The novel moves from Edie’s remote Newfoundland outport to St. John’s and finally to New York City’s Lower East Side. Against the background of the history-making “Uprising” of 1909, when 20,000 garment workers went on strike for better working conditions, and the https://nimbus.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9781988747224-1.jpgastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911), Edie begins to find her own voice, hone her already-strong will, and learn about the true nature of home. A celebration of the strength of women and the power of community.

Additional information

Weight279 g
Dimensions5.5 × 8.5 in
Binding

Paperback

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Date Published

February 15 2019

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ACTIVE TITLE

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No of Pages

156

Page Count

156

ISBN

9781927917176