Big Top Burning: The True Story of an Arsonist, a Missing Girl, and the Greatest Show on Earth
by Laura A. Woollett
Big Top Burning investigates the 1944 Hartford circus fire and invites readers... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2015
Word Count 20,109
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1010L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 182050, 3.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Identification
- 20th century
- Connecticut
- Arson
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - General
- Hartford Circus Fire, Hartford, Conn., 1944--Juvenile literature
- Hartford (Conn.)--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- Arson--Connecticut--Hartford--History--Juvenile literature
- Fires
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Law & Crime
- Dead
- Dead--Identification--Case studies--Juvenile literature
- Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction
- Hartford Circus Fire, Hartford, Conn., 1944
- Hartford
- Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows--History--Juvenile literature
- Fires--Connecticut--Hartford--History--Juvenile literature
- History
- Hartford (Conn.)
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