Crown Fire

by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

At 18, Chip Ladou could keep up with the best loggers in the camp, but his angry explosions cost him a job, the camp, the woods. Taking a year off to attend Port Chance high school put him back in contact with Ted Finerty, who had started the trouble in camp. Before Chip can conquer the "crown fire" inside him, he has to find out about himself. The solution for him is in the Golden Gloves and a devastating fire that took his beloved forest.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1951

About the author

Eloise Jarvis McGraw was an author of children's books. She was awarded the Newbery Honor three times in three different decades, for her novels Moccasin Trail (1952), The Golden Goblet (1962), and The Moorchild (1997). A Really Weird Summer (1977) won an Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America. McGraw had a very strong interest in history, and among the many books she wrote for children are Greensleeves, Pharaoh, The Seventeenth Swap, and Mara, Daughter of the Nile.

McGraw also contributed to the Oz series started by L. Frank Baum, writing with her daughter Lauren Lynn McGraw (Wagner) Merry Go Round in Oz (the last of the Oz books issued by Baum's publisher) and The Forbidden Fountain of Oz, and later writing The Rundelstone of Oz on her own. The actual writing of the books was done entirely by Eloise; Lauren made story contributions significant enough for Eloise to assign her co-authorship credit.

She lived for many years in Portland, Oregon before dying in late 2000 of "complications of cancer".

McGraw was married to William Corbin McGraw, who died in 1999. They had two children, Peter and Lauren.

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