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"In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people are forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Nikki Roberts feels very grown up when her parents leave her alone in their mountain lodge for a few days. The 13-year-old has promised them she will not take any long horseback rides or canoe trips, so she saddles Goblin and heads for a nearby sheep meadow for the afternoon. It's not long before Nikki's trail leads her into perilous territory. She surprises deadly poachers at work who are shooting bighorn rams for trophies. Her CB radio picks up...
4) Forest fire
Author
Series
Magic School Bus. To the rescue volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mrs. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip to visit Arnold's uncle who is a forest firefighter and they find themselves in an actual forest fire.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the largest evacuation ever of a city in the face of a forest fire, raising the curtain on a new age of increasingly destructive wildfires. This book is a suspenseful account of one of North America's most devastating forest fires-and a stark exploration of our dawning era of climate catastrophes"--
8) Missing Mike
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Twelve-year-old Caera Donovan and her family flee a wildfire bearing down on their hometown of Pine Grove, with no time to find Caera's beloved dog Mike. Faced with the loss of everything she knows, Caera can't stand to lose Mike as well and seeks a way to sneak back to Pine Grove. When her plans are thwarted, she must learn to embrace a new definition of "home.""--
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running for his life, together with a girl, Delphy, from a different camp--finding an old jeep keeps them going, but in the wilds of Maine, there are only logging roads and the deadly crown fire is everywhere.
11) Out of range
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Abby, Emma, and Ollie are squabbling sisters on a punishment hike up a mountain with their camp counselor, Dana, when they suddenly find themselves completely on their own, and spot the smoke of a forest fire above them; in order to survive they need to learn to depend on each other--or the name of the hiking area, No Return Wilderness, may prove to be prophetic.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
An estimated one billion animals died in the horrific Australian bushfires last year. Through the help of tireless volunteers working to rescue the remains of their once-flourishing environment, stories of animal and human resilience have emerged. Rising from the ashes, animal survivors begin their challenging journey back to a wild existence.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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"Gabe doesn't know where he belongs anymore. His family is caught up in their own lives and his friends barely have time for him ... In a desperate move for attention ... Gabe sets off fireworks in the woods near his house and causes a small forest fire ... In the chaos of the destruction, a coyote named Rill ... finds herself far from home ... Gabe and Rill's paths irrevocably cross when Gabe is tasked with cleaning up the forest ... The damage to...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In his scintillating debut, John Pipkin fictionalizes an ignoble event in noted naturalist Henry David Thoreau's life. One year before his historic retreat to the woods around Walden Pond, Thoreau struck a match and carelessly started a mammoth fire that would go on to consume 300 acres of forest and farmland.
15) Hotshots
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this book, young readers will learn about wildfire firefighters.
16) Fire storm
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Alex enjoys kayaking behind the raft of his aunt and uncle as they journey down Idaho's Salmon River, until they find themselves in the middle of a forest fire.
17) Wildfire
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1994
Description
An environmental thriller featuring Henry Lightstone, an agent of the Fish and Wildlife Department. He battles a junta of international financiers bent on destroying the environmental movement through terror. By the author of Prey.
18) Wildfires
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Presents wildfires as neither good nor bad but as part of the endless cycle of change in forests and grasslands.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Wildfires have been part of the American landscape for thousands of years. Forests need fire--it's as necessary to their well-being as soil and sunlight. But some fires burn out of control, destroying everything and everyone in their path. In this book, you'll find out about how and why wildfires happen, how different groups . . . have managed forests and fire, the biggest wildfires in American history--how they began and . . . stories of both rescue...
20) Young men & fire
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A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, “Young Men and Fire” describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces...
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