The fire-eaters
by David Almond
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This is the story of two months in the life of Bobby Burns who leads a happy life with his parents in Keely Bay until, suddenly, his whole world seems to fall apart - It all seems to follow his meeting with McNulty.
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Conduct of life, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, Fiction, Hope, History, Juvenile fiction, Engels, Historical fiction, Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) fast (OCoLC)fst00884799, Large type books, Children's fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Great britain, history, fiction, Readers, English language, juvenile literature, Adventure and adventurers, fictionPlaces
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"Parts of this novel appeared, in an earlier form, in the magazines Panurge and Stand and in A Kind of Heaven ..."--Title page verso.
Whitbread Children's Book award ; Smarties Book Prize Gold award.
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In 1962 England, despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school 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.
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