Emmi in the City

By Salima Alikhan

Subjects: Chicago fire, fiction", Fires, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Children's fiction, Survival, fiction

Description: Although Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant in the early 1870s, she's often teased by her America-born peers. But when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, Emmi and her enemies find themselves braving the smoke and flames together. Can Emmi and the others survive the danger to escape the burning city?