In 1911 New York, sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld must stop taking care of her irrepressible six-year-old sister when she goes to work at the Triangle Waist Company, where she befriends a missing heiress who is in hiding from her family and who seems to understand the feelings of heartache and grief that Essie is trying desperately to escape.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: arnold, dorothy harriet camille, b. 1884?, juvenile fiction, fiction, grief, juvenile fiction, loss (psychology), sisters, immigrants, jews, united states, new york (n.y.), history, 1898-1951, juvenile fiction, fiction