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The Great Fire
Jim Murphy

The Great Fire

Great Chicago Fire

Scholastic Trade (Jun 30, 1995)
9780590472661
| Paperback (oversized)
144 pages | 198 x 249 mm | English
Dewey 977.31

Genre

  • Historical Fiction

Subject

  • Chicago (Ill.)
  • Fires
  • Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871
  • Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Plot

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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