The Truth About Mary Rose — Marilyn Sachs

Mary Rose was proud to be named after her aunt, because her aunt had been a heroine, saving the lives of everyone in the apartment building -- before dying in the fire. But not everyone thought the first Mary Rose was a heroine. Young Mary Rose overheard her uncle's remembrance of the events of that dramatic day -- and they weren't at all what she expected. Juvenile fiction by Marilyn Sachs; originally published by Doubleday