Download or read book Lucy Fights the Flames written by Julie Gilbert and published by Stone Arch Books. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as fire sweeps through the locked down factory trapping the workers inside.