Publisher description for Into the firestorm : a novel of San Francisco, 1906 / Deborah Hopkinson.
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding.
The year is 1906, and ten-year-old Nick Bray, just orphaned, steals away from the migrant cotton camp to San Francisco. No sooner does he find himself a basement to sleep in and a job at a stationery shop than the great quake strikes. Just as he and his boss's dog, Brownie, are settling in for the night, the basement walls begin to shake uncontrollably. Nick has no way of knowing that he and Brownie are facing the worst earthquake and fire ever to hit the city--and that he's got to find a way out.
Deborah Hopkinson gives a suspenseful account of one boy's heroic fight to survive. Timed for the Centennial anniversary of the actual 1906 San Fransciso Earthquake and Fire and inspired by a real boy (and dog), Into the Firestorm is fast-paced and carefully-researched middle-grade historical fare.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906 -- Juvenile fiction
San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906 -- Fiction.
Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Fires -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.