To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire by John Kuenster, David Cowan

To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire

John Kuenster, David Cowan

299 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime emotional sad slow-paced

Description

On a grey winter day in December 1958, one of the deadliest fires in American history took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at a Catholic elementary school on Chicago's West Side. The blaze at Our Lady of the Angels School shocked t...

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informative 100%
sad 100%
emotional 66%
challenging 33%
reflective 33%
tense 33%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 33%

Average rating

4.06

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