Into the firestorm : a novel of San Francisco, 1906

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Title:

Into the firestorm : a novel of San Francisco, 1906

Author:

Hopkinson, Deborah.

Personal Author:

Hopkinson, Deborah.

Edition:

First Yearling edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Yearling, 2008.

Physical Description:

200 pages ; 20 cm

Summary:

Days after arriving in San Francisco from Texas, eleven-year-old orphan Nicholas Dray tries to help his new neighbors survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent fires. The year is 1906, and ten-year-old Nick Bray, just orphaned, steals away from the migrant cotton camp to San Francisco. No sooner does he find himself a basement to sleep in and a job at a stationery shop than the great quake strikes. Just as he and his boss's dog, Brownie, are settling in for the night, the basement walls begin to shake uncontrollably. Nick has no way of knowing that he and Brownie are facing the worst earthquake and fire ever to hit the city--and that he's got to find a way out.

Language:

English

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.2 5.0 109200.

Subject Term:

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Juvenile fiction.

Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Fires -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Survival -- Juvenile fiction.

Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.

Geographic Term:

San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.