Title: Worlds Afire
First published: 2004
Description: In this collection of eyewitness poems, the excitement and anticipation of attending the circus on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus tent, killing nearly 170 people, mostly women and children.
Subjects: Juvenile poetry, Circus, Poetry, Fires, American poetry, Children's poetry, American, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Circus, poetry, Children's poetry, Children's fiction, Fires, fiction, Connecticut, fiction, Circus, fiction
Places: Connecticut, Hartford
LC classification: PS3560.A465 W67 2004