The fire-eaters
By: David Almond.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Waterville, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Large type books.; Conduct of life -- Fiction.; Hope -- Fiction.; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Fiction.; Large type books.; Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1962 England, despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.