TY - SER
KW - immigrants
KW - Slavic Americans
KW - steel industry
AU - Irwin Shapiro
AB - Joe Magarac—a mythical Slavic super steelworker who could do the work of 29 men—works multiple jobs at different companies to earn $1,000 for proper citizenship papers.
C1 - 1900s
C3 - Monongahela River; Allegheny County; Braddock; Homestead; Cambria County; Johnstown
C4 - Children’s; Folklore; Labor; Immigrant
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Won the 1948 Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation Prize for Children's Literature.
N2 - Joe Magarac—a mythical Slavic super steelworker who could do the work of 29 men—works multiple jobs at different companies to earn $1,000 for proper citizenship papers.
PB - Julian Messner, Inc.
PP - New York
PY - 1948
RN - Irwin Shapiro (1911-81) grew up in Braddock, Allegheny County. He studied at Carnegie Technical Institute and in New York, then turned to a writing career.
EP - 64 p.
TI - Joe Magarac and His USA Citizenship Papers
ER -