Firestorm!

Description:

A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when the city goes up in flames.

subjects: Pickpockets,  Families,  Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871,  Juvenile fiction,  Family life,  Fiction,  Poverty,  Social classes,  History,  Children's fiction,  Poverty, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Chicago (ill.), fiction

Places: Chicago (Ill.),  Illinois,  Chicago

Times: To 1875