Breathing Fire
Breathing Fire
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Annotation: Running away from her foster home, Ally finds herself on the busking circuit, performing as a juggler and fire breather.
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #5588857
Format: Paperback
Special Formats: High Low High Low
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Publisher: Orca Books
Copyright Date: 2014
Edition Date: 2014 Release Date: 03/01/14
Pages: 133 pages
ISBN: 1-459-80565-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-459-80565-1
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2013951368
Dimensions: 18 cm.
Language: English
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Following the death of her mother, fifteen-year-old Ally is broke and adrift until she encounters a fire-breathing busker, Tate, and begins to contemplate using her own acrobatic skills to become a street performer. The tight-knit (and sometimes contentious) community of young and talented buskers comes to life vividly in this appealing story for reluctant readers.

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Word Count: 18,032
Reading Level: 4.7
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.7 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 165593 / grade: Upper Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:5.6 / points:7.0 / quiz:Q63395
Lexile: HL760L
Guided Reading Level: Z+
Fountas & Pinnell: Z+

When Allys mom dies, Ally is left with no family, no friends and no future. Put into foster care at the age of fifteen, she has less than $200 to her name and nothing left to lose. When Ally meets Tate, a busking fire breather, she starts to see a new life for herself as a street performer. Ally decides to run away from her foster home, but her problems follow her. Hiding her age, sleeping on the streets and avoiding fights with other buskers, Ally discovers that theres more to life as a fire-breathing busker than not getting burned.


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