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Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, the speaker and his best friend meander through the summer after eighth grade, encountering for the first time in the local people of their economically depressed neighborhood enormous courage and vitality.
3) Worlds afire
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
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.