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1) Up in flames
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Ruby's sole concern is capturing the heart of Ashton, the boy next door, but when devastating wildfires engulf her world, she suddenly becomes responsible for her family's survival and works to aid the displaced undocumented community with tough choices to make.
2) The Big Burn
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
4) Bushfire!
Author
Series
Bindi wildlife adventures volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While on an early morning walk, Bindi and her friend Rosie see the smoke from a terrible bushfire, so they rush to the Australian Wildlife Hospital to help care for the animals that were trapped in the fire.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Lily needs a ride--a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha's also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn't forgotten, and neither has Natasha. It's getting tense in the car, and it's not just about the past....
6) Rush
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author and former schoolteacher Jonathan Friesen has a knack for crafting exciting stories teenagers want to read. Rush features 18-year-old Jake King, an adrenaline junkie who jumps at the chance to join an elite group of firefighters who rappel into wildfires. Known as the Immortals, these heroes have a habit of dying young. But Jake's sort-of girlfriend thinks there's more to the Immortals' high death rate than bad luck.
7) Backfire
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A wildfire threatens to obliterate everything in a boy's town. All he knows might be lost. Will he make it out in time? And will his home survive the blaze?"--
8) Now
Author
Series
Once series volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.
9) Hot spot
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A wildfire in Rocky Mountain National Park poses several problems for Chief Anna MacElreath and her Firestormers; not only does she have to work with a touchy career-oriented local fire chief, but a group of conservationists is determined to force her to save the area that is the habitat of the whooping crane--even if it means risking their own lives.
10) Bone yard
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When they are assigned to create a fire break to contain a wildfire burning near Denali National Park in Alaska, Amalia Rendon's crew of elite Firestormers runs into a problem--a small village of stubborn people living off the land who do not want to leave their homes and are too ready to dismiss the danger to their lives.
11) Fire front
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jason Garrett trained as a fire fighter in Portland, Oregon, but when his father, a state senator, pulls some strings he finds himself on an elite wildfire fighting crew called the Firestormers, a job he did not ask for, and is not sure he can handle--especially when Chief Anna MacElreath puts him in charge on his very first wildfire.
12) Back burn
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the Firestormers are sent to a wildfire in North Cascades Park, former special operations soldier Sergeant Heath Rodgers, still annoyed that he did not get the promotion to Lieutenant, is resentful at having to take orders from Jason Garrett, but when a group of "Hotshots" fighting the fire disappears he is devastated--his younger brother, whom he trained, is one of the missing.
13) A dog's courage
Author
Series
A Dog's way home tale volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bella was once a lost dog, but now she lives happily with her people, Lucas and Olivia, only occasionally recalling the hardships in her past. Then a weekend camping trip turns into a harrowing struggle for survival when the Rocky Mountains are engulfed by the biggest wildfire in American history. The raging inferno separates Bella from her people and she is lost once more. Alone in the wilderness, Bella unexpectedly finds herself responsible for...