TY  - BOOK
AU  - Almond,David
TI  - The fire-eaters
SN  - 0440420121 (pbk.) :
AV  - PZ7.A448 Fi 2005b
U1  - [Fic] 22
PY  - 2005///, c2003
CY  - New York
PB  - Yearling
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Fiction
KW  - sears
KW  - Hope
KW  - Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - "Parts of this novel appeared, in an earlier form, in the magazines Panurge and Stand and in A Kind of Heaven ..." --T.p. verso; Originally published: London : Hodder Children's Books, 2003; Accelerated Reader; 3.6; 5.0
N2  - Despite observing his father's illness, the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future
ER  -