num_pages: 320
description: Based on the events surrounding one of the biggest fires of the twentieth century, The Big Burn is a portrait of a time and a place and an event that altered the face of Montana and Idaho, changed the way we fight wildfires, and dramatically transformed the people on the front lines forever.Readers of this novel might also want to read the more documentary account in Timothy Egan's  The Big Burn The classic novel based on a real fire is that by George R. Stewart --  Fire 
language: English
title: The Big Burn
titlecomplete: The Big Burn
genres: Young Adult, Historical, Teen, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 309
places: Montana, Idaho
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Montana Book Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Western Juvenile Fiction
publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks