Book
The Great Fire
by Jim Murphy
- Published
- 1995
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Pages
- 144
- Words
- 22281
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 7.6
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 1130L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–17
A narrative history of the 1871 Chicago Fire that combines survivor accounts, newspaper reports, maps, photographs, and social history to reconstruct the disaster, separate fact from legend, and show how the fire transformed the city and its people.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780590472678
- ISBN-10
- 0590472674
Tags
ALSC NotablesChicagoDisasters-Misc./OtherHistory-American/U.S. HistoryNonfictionPlaces-CitiesUnited States-Illinois