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Big top burning : the true story of an arsonist, a missing girl, and the greatest show on Earth Cover Image Book

Big top burning : the true story of an arsonist, a missing girl, and the greatest show on Earth / Laura A. Woollett.

Woollett, Laura A. (Author).

Summary:

Draws upon primary source documents and survivor interviews to recount the story of one of the worst disasters in American history, the 1944 Hartford circus fire, which claimed the lives of over one hundred people.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781613731147
  • ISBN: 1613731140
  • Physical Description: 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2015]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- The circus comes to town -- "The greatest show on earth" -- Fire! -- "The day the clowns cried" -- Municipal hospital -- "Who knows this child?" -- Who was to blame? -- Accident or arson? -- A name for Little Miss 1565.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.1 3 182050.

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Dead > Identification > Case studies.
Hartford (Conn.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
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Case studies.

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