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3) Wildfire
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a look at the positive and negative effects wildfires have on communities and ecosystems while examining how they are started, contained, and controlled by professional firefighters.
5) Takeout
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
War is being waged on the Amazon forest. Filmmaker Michal Siewierskiembarks on a journey to expose the truth about the fires.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning strike.
8) Home again
Author
Series
Heartwood Hotel volume 4
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Summer has come to Fernwood Forest, and the staff of the Heartwood Hotel must trust each other as they contend with their biggest challenge yet"--
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Formats
Description
"NOVA tells the stories of residents who had to flee for their lives during the 2018 California fire season. Scientists race to understand what's behind the rise of the record-breaking megafires and investigate how forestry practices, climate change, and the physics of fire itself play a role in the dramatic increase in wildfires in recent decades."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Describes the devastating events of September 1894, when two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, and surrounding communities, trapping more than two thousand people and ultimately costing more than four hundred lives.
11) Wildlife
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A meticulously crafted portrait of the American nuclear family in crisis charts the rift that forms within a 1960s Montana household when the father and breadwinner abruptly departs to fight the forest fires raging nearby, leaving his restless wife and teenage son to pick up the pieces. A deeply human look at a woman's wayward journey toward self-fulfillment in the pre-women's liberation era and a sensitively observed, child's eye coming-of-age tale....
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old 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 now that they’re stars on the soccer team. In a desperate plea for attention to impress his friends after school, Gabe sets off fireworks in the woods near his house and causes a small forest fire that destroys several acres of land. In the chaos of the destruction, a coyote named Rill—tired of her...
Author
Publisher
Published by Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In Depression-era northern Michigan, a young boy meets a teenager serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps, the work relief program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to employ millions of young men during the Great Depression"--
14) Wildfire run
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
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
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Offers an account of the largest-ever forest fire in America, which cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy because the heroism shown by the forest rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, which Roosevelt wanted to conserve.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
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"--
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, USA, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Escaping the blazing forest, Little Bear leaves behind his cozy cave, his friends and the comforts he knows as he journeys into the unknown where, in the most unfamiliar of places, he discovers the true meaning of home with the help and kindness of new animal friends.
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