In this hybrid of fact and fiction about daily life for the urban poor in the early 1900s, author Barbara Greenwood tells the story of 12-year-old Emily Watson, who stands for 11 hours a day clipping threads from blouses to earn four dollars a week it brings. When a reporter arrives, determined to expose the terrible conditions in the factory, Emily finds herself caught between the desperate immigrant girls with whom she works and the hope of change. Then tragedy strikes, and Emily must decide where her loyalties lie. Launch date: March 2007.
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