Audrey under the big top : a Hartford Circus Fire survival story [Girls Survive]by Gunderson, Jessica 

Paperback(Stone Arch, 2022)

BTSB #: 406780 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG Lexile: 540

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Hartford Circus Fire, Hartford, Conn., 1944 - Fiction Circus - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Sisters - Fiction

Summary: In 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, twelve-year-old Audrey dreams of being an aerialist like her heroes, the Flying Wallendas, and so she is excited to go to Ringling Brothers circus with her six-year-old twin sisters; but at the show a fire breaks out, and as the crowd starts to panic Audrey struggles to reach her sisters. She gets Patty out, but Charlotte, afraid of heights, refuses to jump from the higher seats, and disappears as the big top comes crashing down.