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Presents a history of the 1741 slave rebellion that nearly destroyed New York City, and describes the conviction of over one hundred men and women who were either burned at the stake, hanged, or imprisoned and the social and political climate of the 1730s and 1740s.

Meena, babysitting Trace Clayton, the son of her parents' best friends, saves the child from a mysterious fire that breaks out in the living room. The first in a sequence of books that follows the lives of seven friends, united by a past tragedy, over the course of seven weeks in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden.

Whandall Placehold grows to adulthood in the mean streets of Tep's Town, a city ruled by a voracious god of fire who periodically leads the citizens to set their own town ablaze, but his dreams of escape are hindered by the knowledge that freedom comes only at the hands of the sorcerer who killed his father.

Text, photos, and illustrations depict the happening of the 1871 Chicago fire.

Fictional story of a brother and sister caught in a forest fire is interleaved with factual information about forest fires and how they are fought.

Tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire in graphic novel format, describing how a barn blaze grew into an inferno that killed hundreds of people and destroyed several square miles of property.

Jozef, working to secretly infiltrate the gangs that have been victimizing the Polish-American community in Chicago in 1871, forms an unlikely friendship with Bridget, and finds himself scrambling to identify a killer when she is falsely arrested for murder.

"When Henry Cooper sets out on his mail route on Arcadia Street one crisp spring morning, he has no idea that his world is about to change. He is simply enjoying the sunshine as he lights up a cigar and tosses the match to the ground, entirely unaware that he has just started a fire that will destroy a neighborhood and kill a young wife"--Amazon.