W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Worlds Afire /

Janeczko, Paul B., 1945-2019, author.

Worlds Afire / Paul B. Janeczko. - First paperback edition. - Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007, c2004. - 92 pages ; 21 cm.

In this collection of eyewitness poems, the excitement and anticipation of attending the circus on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus tent, killing nearly 170 people, mostly women and children.

Teen.

9780763634001

2003055337


Fires--Connecticut--Hartford--Fiction.
Circus--Fiction
Perspective--Fiction.


Novels in verse.
FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General.

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