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Author	Woollett, Laura A.
Title	Big top burning : the true story of an arsonist, a missing girl, and the greatest show on Earth / Laura A. Woollett.
Pub Info	Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2015]

Descript	167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
	text rdacontent
	unmediated rdamedia
	volume rdacarrier
Note	Accelerated Reader MG 7.1 3 3 182050
Summary	Draws upon primary source documents and survivor interviews to recount the story of one of the worst disasters in American history, the 1944 Hartford circus fire, which claimed the lives of over one hundred people.
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.
Contents	Prologue -- The circus comes to town -- "The greatest show on earth" -- Fire! -- "The day the clowns cried" -- Municipal hospital -- "Who knows this child?" -- Who was to blame? -- Accident or arson? -- A name for Little Miss 1565 -- Epilogue.
Subject	Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows -- History.
	Hartford Circus Fire, Hartford, Conn., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
	Fires -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Arson -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Dead -- Identification -- Case studies -- Juvenile literature.
	Hartford Circus Fire, Hartford, Conn., 1944.
	Fires -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History.
	Arson -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History.
	Dead -- Identification -- Case studies.
	Hartford (Conn.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Hartford (Conn.) -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN	9781613731147 (cloth)
	1613731140 (cloth)

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