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1) Forest fire!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and illustrations describe different types of forest fires, how they can start, and their impact on the people, animals, and landscape.
2) Sunshine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Abruptly spending a week in a northern Minnesota forest with the mother he has never met, a boy with a faithful imaginary dog learns to camp, canoe, and endure the elements while wondering if his mother will ever return home.
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A compilation of three titles from Gary Paulsen's World of adventure series.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
5) Fire storm
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education, Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brief exploration of what wildland firefighters do on the job, including the equipment they use and the training they need, plus real-life instances of famous smokejumpers parachuting in to fight fires.
8) Wildfire run
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A relaxing retreat to Camp David turns deadly after a faraway earthquake sets off a a chain of disastrous events that traps the president's twelve-year-old son, Luke, and his two friends within the compound.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a boy adjusts to his family's new home in the forest, he learns to observe and appreciate the forest animals, especially a fox with whom he strikes up a friendship--until a wildfire forces both of them to flee for their lives. Includes a note about forest fires and their role in forest ecology.
12) Smoke jumper
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about smoke jumpers. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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"--
16) Wildfire
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Kaya, 1764 volume 2
Kaya classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kaya 1764 volume 2
Kaya classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kaya 1764 volume 2
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kaya travels with a hunting party into the mountains to look for her stolen horse, but when she smells smoke in the wind she realizes she might be in serious danger.
18) Bush rescue
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
89 pages : black and white illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Stamp and James are on the road again and they've brought their new friend Ace along. Stamps happy to have a new friend, but no-one has taught Ace any manners! Its up to James and Stamp to show her how to behave if only she would listen! When Daisy Ado the Cockatoo flies into the Fourby, James decides to return her to her owner. But whats that smoky smell on the wind? Theres a bushfire coming to the town of Jasper, and the local vet has his hands...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race. Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach on wild spaces, fear, arrogance, and greed have shaped the way that people view these regenerative events and have given rise to misinformation. The peril that...
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