Big Top Burning: The True Story of an Arsonist, a Missing Girl, and The Greatest Show On Earth
By (Author) Laura A. Woollett
Chicago Review Press
Chicago Review Press
9th December 2019
United States
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Law, police and crime
974.63042
Paperback
176
Width 9mm, Height 215mm, Spine 139mm
The fire broke out at 2:40 p.m. Thousands of men, women, and children were crowded under Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's big top watching the Flying Wallendas begin their death-defying high-wire act. Suddenly someone screamed "Fire!" and the panic began. By 2:50 the tent had burned to the ground. Not everyone had made it out alive. With pr
Laura A. Woollett is an educational publisher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she writes and edits fiction and nonfiction for struggling and reluctant readers. She is member of SCBWI and a former reviewer for the Horn Book Guide. She lives in Framingham, Massachusetts.