Worlds Afire
Circus, fiction
Connecticut, fiction
Circus
Fires
Children's poetry, American
Reading Level-Grade 7
Reading Level-Grade 8
Reading Level-Grade 9
Reading Level-Grade 10
Juvenile poetry
Children's poetry
Reading Level-Grade 11
Reading Level-Grade 12
American poetry
Poetry
Children's fiction
Fiction
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.
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