Audrey under the big top : a Hartford Circus Fire survival story
Call Number
- J GUND (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint, [2022]
Physical Description
102 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Audience
Grades 4-6. Stone Arch Books.
Series
Summary
In 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, twelve-year-old Audrey dreams of being an aerialist like her heroes, the Flying Wallendas, and so she is excited to go to Ringling Brothers circus with her six-year-old twin sisters; but at the show a fire breaks out, and as the crowd starts to panic Audrey struggles to reach her sisters--she gets Patty out, but Charlotte, afraid of heights, refuses to jump from the higher seats, and disappears as the big top comes crashing down.
Subjects
- Hartford Circus Fire, Hartford, Conn., 1944 > Juvenile fiction.
- Fires > Connecticut > Hartford > History > Juvenile fiction.
- Circus > Juvenile fiction.
- Survival > Juvenile fiction.
- Sisters > Juvenile fiction.
- Twins > Juvenile fiction.
- Hartford Circus Fire, Hartford, Conn., 1944 > Fiction.
- Circus > Fiction.
- Survival > Fiction.
- Sisters > Fiction.
- Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows > Juvenile fiction.