Touched by Fire

by Irene N. Watts

Book Overview

"Let them burn. They're a lot of cattle anyway."
A factory-owner's response regarding the use of fire drills in March 1911.

Touched by Fire, Irene N. Watt's exquisite new novel, explores one family's journey as they flee from the pogroms of Russia in 1905, where the Cossacks burn villages to the ground, to Berlin, Germany, where Jews have a hard time living and working in peace, to the streets of the Lower East Side in New York...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 177049524X
• ISBN13: 9781770495241
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher