Joshua's song

Description:

Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, thirteen-year-old Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets.

subjects: Child labor,  Fiction,  Molasses,  Newspaper carriers,  Disasters,  History,  Large type books,  Children's fiction,  Disasters, fiction,  Boston (mass.), fiction

Places: Boston (Mass.)

Times: 20th century