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The fire-eaters
Title:
The fire-eaters
Personal Author EPSB:
David, Almond
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.
Other Title:
Fire eaters
Year Published:
2003
Physical Description:
218 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:
"Parts of this novel appeared, in an earlier form, in the magazines Panurge and Stand and in A Kind of Heaven ..." --T.p. verso.
Awards:
Whitbread award
Subject:
Conduct of life -- Fiction.

Hope -- Fiction.

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
ISBN:
9780440420125
Publisher:
New York : Yearling Book, c2003.
Edmonton Public Schools