What Was the Great Chicago Fire? (What Was?)

by Janet B Pascal (Author) Tim Foley (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4^th − 5^th Grade

Series: What Was?

Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series. On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything that could go wrong did. Firemen first went to the wrong location. Fierce winds helped the blaze jump the Chicago River twice. The Chicago Waterworks burned down, making it impossible to fight the fire. Finally after two days, Mother Nature took over, with rain smothering the flames. This overview of a stupendous disaster not only covers the fire but explores the whole history of fire fighting.

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Janet B Pascal

Janet Pascal lives in New York, New York. John O'Brien lives in Delaran, New Jersey. Nancy Harrison lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Classification

Non-fiction

ISBN-13

9780399541582

Lexile Measure

720

Guided Reading Level

Publisher

Penguin Workshop

Publication date

October 25, 2016

Series

What Was?

BISAC categories

JNF025200 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/19th Century
JNF051160 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Disasters

Library of Congress categories

History
19th century
Chicago (Ill.)
Illinois
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871
To 1875
Fires
Chicago
JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Disa

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