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    The Great Fire: A City in Flames
    The Great Fire: A City in Flames
    The Great Fire: A City in Flames
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    The Great Fire: A City in Flames

    By Ann Turnbull

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    A thrilling historical adventure based on documents from the National Archives. Orphan Sam has survived the Great Plague, but his chance at a new life goes up in smoke when a fire breaks out on Pudding Lane.

    "In sixteen hundred and sixty-six, London burned like rotten sticks."

    Left alone and homeless by the Great Plague, Sam struggled to survive. He was lucky to get a job working for the Giraud family. Though Andre, the son of his boss, doesn't make life easy. And then a fire breaks out on Pudding Lane. Before anyone fully realises what's happening, London's burning... and this fire can't be put out. Now it's time for Sam to prove what he's really worth. If he can get out alive...

    A thrilling historical adventure produced in partnership with the National Archives. Sam's previous adventure is The Great Plague: A Cross on the Door is also available from Bloomsbury Education.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateSep 12, 2013
    ISBN9781408188231
    The Great Fire: A City in Flames
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    Ann Turnbull

    Ann, who lives in the Shropshire town of Telford, is best-known for her historical novels, including the Friends and Foes trilogy - of which the first book, Pigeon Summer, was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize. She has been writing since the age of six and her first book was published in 1974. Since then, more than 25 books have followed.

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      This book will keep the reader on the edge of their seat. It has a lot of hitorical facts in it and the facts make it an amazing book! Definitely recommend! :)

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    The Great Fire - Ann Turnbull

    For my mother

    Contents

    1 Gold and Diamonds

    2 Fire!

    3 Come Straight Home

    4 Firefighters

    5 Escape

    6 Trapped

    7 We Must Go!

    8 Into the Fields

    9 Out of the Ashes

    Gold and Diamonds

    Sam! his master called. Come – look at this!

    Sam was sweeping the passage. He put down his broom and went into Paul Giraud’s workshop.

    André was already there. He gave Sam an unfriendly look – a look that said: I’m your master’s son. Don’t you come pushing in here.

    But Master Giraud encouraged Sam to come in. See! It’s finished.

    Oh! exclaimed Sam in delight.

    On the table lay a necklace of gold, inlaid with blue enamel. From the chain, which sparkled with diamonds, hung a pendant in the shape of a ribbon bow, entwined with flowers. The folds of the blue ribbon were so lifelike that Sam almost believed it would drape across his hand if he picked it up. Tiny diamonds were set all along the ribbon edges and a larger one was set in the centre of each of the flowers. Sparks of light sprang from the diamonds and made everything glitter.

    Sam had watched Master Giraud making the enamel, grinding granules of blue glass till they were a fine powder. Occasionally he would let Sam have a go. Sam liked feeling the glass crush and break and seeing the pure colour appear. And he enjoyed being in the workshop while André was out, at school.

    It’s perfect, declared André.

    And it’s important, said his father. This is the most beautiful and expensive piece I have ever been asked to make. And Master Harrington’s friends will see it, and so more customers will want my work.

    Sam knew the necklace was for the new young wife of a wealthy merchant.

    Tonight I will finish and polish it, and place it in its casket, said Paul Giraud. Then tomorrow we will go to church and give thanks. And on Monday morning I will deliver it to Thomas Harrington. You shall come with me, André, before you go to school.

    André smiled.

    Sam, of course, would not go to the merchant’s house. That honour was only for André, who was to follow his father into

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