Granny Torrelli makes soup by Creech, Sharon 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2008)

BTSB #: P00372 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Grandmothers - Fiction Italian Americans - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Blind - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Cooking - Fiction

Summary: With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.

Lucy fights the flames : a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory survival story [Girls Survive]by Gilbert, Julie 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2020)

BTSB #: 378527 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG Lexile: 590

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Triangle Shirtwaist Company - Fire, 1911 - Fiction Italian Americans - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Our Italian Christmas Eve by Sedita, Danielle 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2023)

BTSB #: 795252 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-7   
Lexile: 560 AD F&P: M

Genres: Family Life Holidays

Subjects: Christmas - Fiction Family life - Fiction Italian Americans - Fiction

Summary: A Christmas Feast--Italian style--as two young siblings celebrate with their family and start a new tradition.