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Troubled teenager Walter Tyrell loves fire, but he knows as well as anyone else that playing with it will only get you burned. Still, he cannot control himself from grabbing some gasoline and a book of matches and setting off into the night. But the symbol he chooses to burn into the football field is as controversial as the arson itself. Walter has gone too far this time, and he's about to take everyone in his life-including his sister Janice-down with him. High school teacher Robert Barkin thinks he's put the past behind him. But when former classmate Janice Tyrell reenters his life, she...

Originally published in 1949, this lively book is an established treasure in Germany. Translated by Monica Gold it depicts the life struggles and striving of the Polish astronomer Nikolaus Copernicus. It is of value as a reader for seventh and eighth graders.