The fire-eaters / David Almond.
2004
YA PZ7.A448 Fi 2004 (Mapit)
Available at Midgrade/YA Collection
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Title
The fire-eaters / David Almond.
Author
ISBN
0385731701 (trade)
0385902077 (Gibraltar lib. bdg.)
0385902077 (Gibraltar lib. bdg.)
Published
[New York] : Delacorte Press, 2004.
Language
English
Description
218 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
YA PZ7.A448 Fi 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
[Fic]
Summary
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.
Note
Whitbread Award.
"Parts of this novel appeared, in an earlier form, in the magazines Panurge and Stand and in A Kind of Heaven ..." --T.p. verso.
"Parts of this novel appeared, in an earlier form, in the magazines Panurge and Stand and in A Kind of Heaven ..." --T.p. verso.
Audience
008+.
520L Lexile
520L Lexile
Awards
Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, 2004.
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