Big Top Burning: The True Story of an Arsonist, a Missing Girl, and The Greatest Show On Earth
Author: Woollett, Laura A.
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.1
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
20109
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
167
Points per Page
0.017964
Description
This book draws upon primary source documents and survivor interviews to recount the story of one of the worst disasters in American history, the 1944 Hartford circus fire, which claimed the lives of over one hundred people.