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Breathing Fire

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1 of 1 copy available

When Ally's 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 there's more to life as a fire-breathing busker than not getting burned.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for teen readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don't like to read!

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 20, 2014
      Fire literally lights the way to a new and better life for a struggling teen in this brisk addition to the Soundings series, written at a fourth-grade level. When 15-year-old Ally’s mother dies, she’s left with no one and nothing in the world. But Ally finds excitement, hope, and a bit of romance when she meets Tate, a fire-breathing busker on the beach. Between Tate’s training and Ally’s gymnastics skills, she may have found a way to earn some money and make her way in the world. Tsiang’s protagonist crackles with personality, and readers will be rooting for Ally as she juggles, flips, and breathes fire to come into her own. Simultaneously available: Bike Thief by Rita Fuetl. Ages 12–up.

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2014
      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.

      (Copyright 2014 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.7
  • Lexile® Measure:760
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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