Circle of Fire

by William H. Hooks

Shortly before Christmas, 1936, eleven-year-old Harrison overhears a notorious local bigot planning a Ku Klux Klan raid on a band of Irish tinkers camped nearby and realizes he must do something to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689502419
• ISBN13: 9780689502415
• Release Date: July 1982
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

The Circle of Fire

In this story the Circle of Fire everyone gets helped or gets a friend. The story is set in the country area of North Carolina after the Civil War. Harrison and his colored friends enjoy the fun stuff in life. Going on picnics, picking black walnuts, and waiting for Christmas to come. There is a man now as Mr. Bud Highsmith. He owns one side of wood road and the other side is in Harrison family area. They met a nice boy named Limp. Limp was a gypsy boy. They moved down there during Christmas. They usually come in the spring. They had a bad meeting with the KKK. Harrison and Limp are found with the KKK and a hard place. What will happen to them? If you like books that make you feel like that you are there. Read this book.

Round of Applause for Circle of Fire

This book is about Harrison and his two friends. They live in North Carolina during 1930's. A gypsy group comes back north during the winter. They learn that they had a run-in with the Ku Klux Klan. They are torturing this gypsy group. The Klan comes back north into North Carolina, where it is illegal to be a member. This is where the gypsy's though they were safe. Harrison hears his dad on the phone with a man from South Carolina, and he gets suspicious whether his father is a Klanner or not. I liked this book because it was very suspenseful. I loved this book so much, that I brought it home to read. That is something I do not do often. I recommend this book to anyone, and it has a lot of history in it. The facts are true, and that also makes it interesting.

Chris' Corner

I read the book "Circle of Fire" It was a good book it was about a young boy and 2 of his friends who were black. Then the boy meets an irish family named the Tinkers. Then the boy finds out his dad might by part of the ku klux klan. And the grown ups he knows might be part of the klan as well. When the little town that they're in is disturbed by cross fires burned in peoples yards. To find out who was in the klan. then read the rest of the book to find out.