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Author
Series
Windy City saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose much more than just their store.The sisters become separated from their father, and after Meg burns her hands in an attempt to save a family heirloom, they make a harrowing escape from the flames...
Author
Series
I survived volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In a national contest, readers voted and decided that the next I SURVIVED topic will be the Great Chicago Fire, 1871! In the next book of the I SURVIVED series, one boy will struggle to stay alive as the great city of Chicago burns.
3) The mistress
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Masquerading as members of Chicago's upper crust at a glittering ball on the eve of the Great ChicagoFire, Kathleen O'Leary, a beautiful young maid, and con man Dylan Kennedy find themselves falling for each other, unaware of their mutual masquerade.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting narrative that recreates the event with drama...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the midst of the Great Fire of Chicago of 1871 a young woman, Lucy Hathaway, finds and rescues a beautiful baby girl from the fire. Lucy raises the child as her own. Five years later Lucy goes to Randolf Higgins, a prominent banker, for a loan for her new bookstore and discovers that the child she has been raising is his. What will happen next?
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discover the story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, an inferno that forever changed the city's skyline, in this epic graphic novel! Dramatic illustrations and fast-paced text provide a "you-are-there" experience. With extensive back matter, including a bibliography, extended reading list, glossary, and further Internet sources, young readers will gobble up this action-packed comic book about one of history's most compelling disasters.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Between October 8-10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago had grown at a breathtaking pace in barely three decades, from just over 4,000 in 1840 to greater than 330,000 at the time of the fire. Built hastily, the city was largely made of wood. Once it began in the barn of Catherine and Patrick O'Leary, the fire quickly grew out of control, twice...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Chicago was a rapidly growing city, connecting the country's coasts...until 1871 when it all burned to ash. Follow along with the true story of a doomed flame that changed the course of an emerging city. Then, review what you've learned with a recap timeline and a quick quiz to check how much doomed history you remember"--
10) Firestorm!
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when the city goes up in flames.
11) Cinders
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 13
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Cinders is a dappled gray Percheron horse during the 1871 Great Chicago Fire"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series. On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything that could go wrong did. Firemen first went to the wrong location. Fierce winds helped the blaze jump the Chicago River twice. The Chicago Waterworks...
13) Sparky
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A firedog from the Maxwell Street fire station tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire"--
15) The Great Chicago fire: in eyewitness accounts and 70 contemporary photographs and illustrations
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Vivid storytelling and authentic dialogue bring American history to life and place readers in the shoes of people who experienced one of the worst fires in American history - the Great Chicago Fire. In October 1871 the Midwest was in the midst of one of the driest periods on record. A center of modern firefighting technology, all of Chicago's resources were put to the test by a fire that almost completely destroyed the city. Suspenseful, dramatic...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An account of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, discussing the city before the destructive blaze, and providing details of the investigation into the cause of the fire, the myth of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and the effects of the disaster on the city and its residents.
Author
Publisher
NAL, New American Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous motto: "Give the lady what she wants." His legendary charm also won the heart of socialite Delia Spencer and led to an infamous love affair. The night of the Great Fire, as seventeen-year-old Delia watches the flames rise and consume what was the pioneer town of Chicago, she can't imagine how much her life, her city,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
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