The fire-eaters /
Fire eaters
David Almond.
- New York : Delacorte Press, [2004], c2003.
- 218 p. ; 22 cm.
"Portions of this novel appeared in ... the magazines Panurge, Stand, and in A Kind of Heaven"--T.p. verso.
Wilson's Junior High School, November 2005 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2005 Book Links (A.L.A.), May 2005 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2004 Kliatt, March 2006
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, living in England in 1962, still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.
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Conduct of life--Fiction. Hope--Fiction. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962--Fiction. Historical fiction.