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I remember there was this one book that I got through Scholastic about a family that moved to San Francisco right before the 1906 earthquake. I wish I could remember the title and the author. The main character was a young boy, and the book was fascinating, depicting the wonders of the city and its cultures through a child's eye. IIRC, he befriended a wealthy woman who lived in a mansion filled with valuable objets d'art and which had a grand library with thousands of books. I really enjoyed the book up until the point where to create a fire break, the fire department started blowing up the millionaires' mansions, and of course, that woman's mansion was one of those destroyed. Now I'm a person who will re-read favorite books over and over again, and I really liked that book, but the thought of that library being destroyed deliberately made me sick, and I could never bring myself to read that book again.
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