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Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906

Hopkinson, Deborah

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Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906

Deborah Hopkinson is the author of many acclaimed books for young readers, including Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Knopf), Apples to Oregon, and Saving Strawberry Farm. Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building, illustrated by James Ransome, will be published in Spring 2006 by Schwartz & Wade Books. The author lives in Oregon.

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Title of ebook: Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906
Reading level: ages 9 to 12
ISBN: 9780375849169
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Internet download file size: 424 kb
Released online for download: 03-11-2008
Author of eBook: Hopkinson, Deborah

Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906

Road Kid

“Hey, kid. Get back here and empty your pockets.”

Nicholas Dray whirled to see a burly policeman pointing a black club right at him. He froze in astonishment. This should not be happening. Not to Nick the Invisible.

Nick could count only three things he was good at. First, he could pick cotton. Working cotton—planting, thinning, chopping, and picking it—was about all he’d done for most of his eleven years.

Nick wasn’t bad at writing, either. Oh, not putting words together to tell a story or anything, just making letters and words look nice. Back in Texas, he’d often come home after working in the fields and sink down with his back against their wooden shack. Before long he’d be scratching in the dust with a stick until Pa yelled at him to finish his chores or Gran called him in to eat some steaming-hot corn bread.

Being invisible was Nick’s third and newest skill. He’d only gotten good at it since becoming a road kid, since that morning a few weeks ago when he’d finally taken off from the Lincoln Poor Farm for Indigents a ... read full excerpt from Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906 ebook