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Genre/Form: | Curriculum resource Paper case bindings Illustrated case bindings Book jackets Illustrated endpapers Blocking (surface marking) History Juvenile works Juvenile literature |
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Material Type: | Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jim Murphy |
ISBN: | 0590472674 9780590472678 0590472666 9780590472661 |
OCLC Number: | 30070801 |
Awards: | Newbery Honor Book, 1996 American Library Association Notable Children's Book 1996. |
Description: | 144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm |
Contents: | A city ready to burn -- "Everything went wrong!" -- "The dogs of hell were upon the housetops" -- "A surging ocean of flame" -- "Chicago is in flames" -- "The ghost of Chicago" -- Myth and reality. |
Series Title: | Scholastic hardcover |
Responsibility: | Jim Murphy. |
More information: |
Abstract:
By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, [the author] constructs a ... narrative that recreates the events ... And finally, he reveals how, even in a time of deepest despair, the human spirit triumphed, as the people of Chicago found the courage and strength to build their city once again.-Dust jacket.
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