Solomon Kugel has moved to Stockton, New York, to find a quiet life but farms similar to his new home are being burned and he finds an elderly Anne Frank hiding in his attic.
Thirteen-year-old amateur sleuth Minerva Clark is contacted by a boy whose parents' Portland, Oregon grocery store burned down; but when she agrees to investigate the fire, she does not expect to become an arson suspect herself.
the true story of the original Tom Sawyer--and of the mysterious fires that baptized Gold Rush-era San Francisco
Graysmith, Robert
2012
First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.
A boy who does odd jobs in an apartment house becomes involved with a gang of arsonists employed by the building's owner, who plans to destroy it in order to collect the insurance.