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Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALITarshis, Lauren
Summary: "Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC TARBartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BARAlikhan, Salima
Summary: When a massive fire breaks out in 1871 Chicago, twelve-year-old orphan Ollie and his young charge Leo scramble to escape the burning city, but before they find shelter they must search for Ollie's lost sister Eliza among the wreckage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALIGreen, Jocelyn
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Green 2020Rosen, Renee
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rosen 2014Harvey, Michael T.
Summary: When PI Michael Kelly is hired by an ex-flame to tail her abusive husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple. The tail leads Kelly to an old house on Chicago $1 (Bs North Side. Inside it, the private investigator finds a body and, perhaps, the answer to one of Chicago $1 (Bs most enduring mysteries: who started the Great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarvey, Michael T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HARTarshis, Lauren
Summary: Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode. An army of firemen is trying to help, but this fire is a ferocious beast that wants to devour everything in its path, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION TARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J SeriesTarshisKlimo, Kate
Summary: "A firedog from the Maxwell Street fire station tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC KLIKlimo, Kate
Summary: "Cinders is a dappled gray Percheron horse during the 1871 Great Chicago Fire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016