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"Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
2) 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.
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Series
Lilly Hawkins mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to "A Bad Day's Work" finds news photographer Lilly Hawkins covering what she believes will be the biggest story of her career before learning about the suspicious death of a girl she met years earlier whose recent reputation is inconsistent with the person Lilly knew.
6) 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.
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Summer Beach volume 2
Publisher
Sunny Palms Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
While renovating an old beach house, Ivy and her sister, Shelly, suddenly have full occupancy after wildfires force Summer Beach residents from their homes. Even the mayor, Bennett Dylan, who was Ivy's high school crush, moves in. As the summer heats up, attractions simmer and feuds erupt. Living in the house Bennett had hoped could be a community center, he finds himself at odds with Ivy's campaign for a bed-and-breakfast zoning change. And when...
8) Bushfire!
Author
Series
Bindi wildlife adventures volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2024
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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....
10) 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.
12) Backfire
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Series
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Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"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?"--
13) Smoke screen
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English
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Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado hometown. His mother begs him to come back now that his father has been released from prison, but it isn't until he's sidelined by an injury that he's forced to return and face his past. But that means facing Brenna too. Fourteen years ago, Nate was in love with the preacher's daughter. When Pastor Strickland discovered Brenna defied...
14) Morning for dove
Author
Series
Winds across the prairie volume 2
Publisher
Realms
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Luke Anderson falls in love with Dove Morris, he is aware of her Native American heritage. What he is not prepared for is the prejudice suddenly exhibited by his mother against Dove. Torn between the people he loves most in the world, Luke struggles with his feelings until a wildfire on the prairie threatens Morris Ranch. As Luke joins the battle to stave off the fire as it approaches, he must risk his life to save Dove.
15) Paradise on fire
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Bronx middle-grader Addy, who struggles with a family tragedy by drawing maps and studying mazes, joins other city youngsters on a wilderness adventure in California that turns deadly when wildfires erupt.
16) When giants burn
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Wanting to escape his family life, sixth grader Hayes flies off with his misfit friend Gerty to protect a clonal colony of aspen from a wildfire, but the two quickly realize the importance of everything they tried to leave behind.
17) Room for more
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Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In their burrow, wombats Dig and scratch are safe from an Australian bush fire. To Scratch's dismay, Dig invites two wallabies, a koala, and a tiger snake to join them. It's a tight squeeze, but even Scratch has to agree that welcoming their neighbors was a good idea when the other animals help the wombats through a flood. Back matter includes an author's note, a glossary of animals, and information about environmental disasters and Indigenous land...
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Series
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Against all odds, Morgan Carter and his family have endured despite the deteriorating conditions surrounding them. Armed with survivalist tactics, Morgan's crew, alongside their new friends from the recently-liberated DHS camp, have worked together to build a sustainable communuity. But not all situations can be prepared for. When a massive wildfire threatens their very existence, they must decide: fight or flight? From the author of the hit Survivalist...
19) Burning Meredith
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Meredith Mountain fire starts on Labor Day weekend and rages for days - an awesome sight, leaving a trail of havoc and destruction in its wake. Alice Adams edits the Clark's Fort Guardian newspaper, ably assisted by her nephew, Stuart Campbell, and the two cover the blaze for the paper, wowing the local community with their stunning photographs and features. When the fire is finally contained and the mop-up crew discover a burned male body under...
20) Second sight
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English
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"When the biggest legal case of her career brings Eliza Carmody back to Kinsale, the hometown she thought she had left forever, she witnesses an old friend commit a crime that sends her on a dangerous quest to uncover the mysteries of her childhood that the rest of the town seems willing to ignore. With her friend on the run and the police investigating the bones of an unidentified dead body at a historic homestead near town, Eliza becomes convinced...