Title Audrey under the big top : a Hartford Circus Fire survival story / by Jessica Gunderson ; illustrated by Wendy Tan.

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North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint, [2022]

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2214855~S1

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Nichols Juvenile Fiction	J GIRLS	AVAILABLE

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Description	102 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Series	Girls survive.
Note	Ages 8-12. Stone Arch Books.
	Grades 4-6. Stone Arch Books.
	NC540L Lexile
Study Program	Accelerated Reader MG 4.0 1 515220
Note	Accelerated Reader MG 4.0 1 515220
Audience	Ages 8-12. Stone Arch Books.
	Grades 4-6. Stone Arch Books.
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.
Subject	Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows -- Juvenile fiction.
	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.
Genre	Historical fiction.
Added Author	Wei, Wendy Tan Shiau, illustrator.
ISBN	9781663990556 lib. bdg.
	9781666330625 (paperback)

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