Into the Firestorm

A Novel of San Francisco, 1906

By Hopkinson, Deborah

Publishers Summary:
Days after arriving in San Francisco from Texas, eleven-year-old orphan Nicholas Dray tries to help his new neighbors survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent fires. 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.

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ISBN
978-0-37583-652-7
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2006.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on December 1, 2006

Gr 5-8 The terror of the 1906 disaster is brought powerfully alive in this fast-paced tale. When 12-year-old Nick Drays grandmother dies, he is placed in an orphanage. He runs away, leaving Texas for the bright lights of San Francisco. Once there, he talks his way into a job at a stationery store, which he guards while the owner is away on business. One morning, the boy is startled awake by...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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