num_pages: 320
description: Newbery Honor author Susan Campbell Bartoletti brings the story of a young girl caught up in a web of murder lies and the Great Fire of Chicago to bold life.In the autumn of 1871 fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose learns that her parents have been killed in a terrible carriage accident. After her uncle Edward and his awful wife Adeline move into the Pringle family's home--making life for her and her younger brother Gideon unbearable--Pringle runs away with Gideon to Chicago seeking refuge from the tragedy and hoping to start a new life. She becomes a nanny for the children of a labor activist and quickly finds herself caught up in a web of intrigue and lies. Then when a familiar figure from home arrives Pringle begins to piece together the devastating mystery of what happened to her parents and realizes just how deadly the truth might be. But soon one of the greatest disasters this country has ever known--the Great Fire of Chicago--flares up and Pringle is on the run for her life.
language: English
title: Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose
publisher: Scholastic