What are some good books about famous (infamous) fires?
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bravomailer — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 12:03 PM)
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean is a look at a forest fire in the 1940s. MacLean worked for the forest service in his youth and later wrote A River Runs Through It. His son John also writes on forest fires.
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michael1951 — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 04:35 PM)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor.
A classic of middle-reader African-American literature. The fire involved is fictional but is connected with the very real history of lynching.
Shaken Days by Marion Garthwaite
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A middle-reader novel by a writer who flourished in the 1950s and 1960s and to some extent specialized in historical fiction involving California. In this case, it's the San Francisco earthquake, and my recollection (but I could be wrong) is that it included an earthquake-related fire.http://librarything.com/profile/CurrerBell