Emmi in the city : a Great Chicago Fire survival story
2019
Book
Although Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant n the early 1870s, she's often teased by her America-born peers. But when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, Emmi and her enemies find themselves braving the smoke and flames together. Can Emmi and the others survive the danger to escape the burning city?
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781496580115
- 1496580117
Description: 104 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
Other Title:
- Emmy in the city
- Girls survive. Emmi in the city
LCCN: 2018041275
Control Number: 2710611
Publisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint, [2019]Series:
Subjects:
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- To 1875 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Children's stories.
- Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
- Fires -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Juvenile fiction.
- German Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
- Germans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Juvenile fiction.
- Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Other Authors: Trunfio, Alessia, 1990- illustrator.