Customer Reviews

Children Of The Fire

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I read this book and I absoulutely loved it. A third grader could read it at the youngest. It is historical fiction.
If you like adventures, this is the book for you. The main charactor is a 11 year old girl who is black and goes to see the Great Chicago Fire. She makes friends that are white and black. My only concern is that the book is very sad but other than that, anyone would like it.

I gave this book a 5 stars because it caputers the moment in how one little girl runs away and has so many things happen on this journey. I really enjoyed this book because it shows you you how people back in the 1871 really did have fires and were losing all of there belongings. In many other books that I read are similar to this book Children fo the Fire becaseu people are having things bring wrong with world today that we live in. This book also told me that when you run away from things that you shouldn't fo then you also know that you may never find your way back home. Hallelujah is an orhan gril were her father died and her mother was trying really hard making it to chicago when she died. Hallelujah when she ran away from home because she had follwed some of her friends to see what they were up to. They were were picking stuff for their father when Hallelujah wanted to go on Adventare to waht brings next in life...

I bought this book to use with 5th graders, after we read about the Chicago fire. Be aware that several times in the book characters use the n-word. Once is the black foster brother saying it to the little girl, but later in the book white characters call her the n-word. My principal asked me not to use the book.