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1) Wildfires
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Describes wildfires, their causes, and the damage they can cause. Recounts disastrous wildfires in recent history, and how people in fire-prone areas can prevent and prepare for wildfire"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An informative book that takes readers along on a high stakes mission to battle one of the deadliest natural disasters to threaten the nation, while offering a dramatic look into the work of the highly-trained first responders who risk their lives to fight wildfires"--
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Relates, in non-linear chronology, events of the twenty-four hours following sixteen-year-old Audrey's mandatory evacuation from the path of a wildfire, as she recalls her tempestuous relationship with troubled volunteer firefighter Brook.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An account of the tragedy that resulted in the most firefighter deaths since 9/11 tells the full story of the events on Arizona's Granite Mountain on June 30, 2013, when nineteen wildland firefighters lost their lives while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire.
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Journalist M.R. O'Connor ventures into some of the oldest, most beautiful, and remote forests in North America to explore the powerful and ancient relationship between trees, fires, and humans. Along the way, she describes revelatory research in the fields of paleobotany and climate science to show how the world's forests have been shaped by fire for hundreds of millions of years. As she weaves together first-hand reportage with research and cultural...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Kira teams up with a student at the animal sanctuary to track down a bird thought to be extinct. While they're trying to observe the elusive bird, bushfires threaten to wipe out the sanctuary and the parrot's habitat. There's no choice but to evacuate all the animals, which is a huge task even without trying to track down a missing baby wallaby.
14) Paradise peak
Author
Series
New Americana volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A need for absolution compels an ex-con to work beside a woman with an equally tragic past among people who do not know his role in their burdens to rescue the community of Paradise Peak from an advancing wildfire.
Author
Series
Extincts volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Deciding to leave the Extincts and determined to do work that will actually make a difference, Lug helps a group of smoke jumpers stop the wildfires in California but must call upon his friends when it's discovered that the fires may not be so natural.
Author
Series
I survived volume 20
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the story of a boy who moves across the country to rural northern California, where his efforts to adjust are challenged by a fast-moving firestorm that places family homes and lives at risk.
18) A fire story
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Explores how the author and his family coped with the 2017 wildfires of Northern California that resulted in forty-four fatalities and the destruction of 6,200 homes.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After Pearl Harbor, sweethearts Gordon Hooper and Dorie Armitage were broken up by their convictions. As a conscientious objector, he went west to fight fires as a smokejumper, while she joined the Army Corps. When a tragic accident raises suspicions, they're forced to work together, but the truth they uncover may lead to an impossible-and dangerous-choice"--
20) Rush
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A pariah in his town and home for the results of his risk-taking behavior, eighteen-year-old Jake seeks adrenaline rushes to clear his dark thoughts, but when Salome, the girl he loves, gets caught up in taking chances, too, the consequences are devastating.
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