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Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents are forced to gather for safety--resulting in a tangle of love and lust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form across political divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit the burning planet. Playing with Wildfire is a literary landscape that is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grant application-turned-love-story; a phone call from...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant exploration of the rising phenomenon of megafires--forest fires of alarming scale, intensity, and devastation--that explains the science of what is causing them and captures the danger and heroism of those who fight them. In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest fire expert travels to the most dangerous and remote wildernesses, as well as to the backyards of people faced with these catastrophic conflagrations, to look at the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"This title explores how wildfires have changed over time, as well as the effects of climate change, human development, and human actions to reduce or prevent such fires. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." -- Amazon.com.
4) Wildfires
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Smoke in the air. Crackling wood. Wildfire! Get to safety, fast. Dry weather, strong winds, and careless actions can all cause forests to burn. Firefighters battle wildfires from the ground and from above. But you can be prepared! Learn about wildfires and how to prevent them, pay attention to warnings, and stay safe"--
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
In the shade of ancient redwood trees, a father builds a house for his newborn daughter, where she grows up wild and strong, but when a wildfire takes back their beloved home, he writes his now-grown daughter a letter telling her it is gone.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Humanity's impact on the natural world can have disastrous effects. The California Droughtshines a light on California's lengthy and devastating dry period. With abundant charts and diagrams and large-format photos, this title explores the science behind climate change, groundwater, and human water use patterns, and considers actions people and governments can take to try to improve the situation. Features include a flow chart showing the disaster's...
10) California burning: the fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and what it means for America's power grid
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California's largest utility company that led to countless wildfires - including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise - and the human cost of infrastructure failure Pacific Gas & Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning, Wall Street Journal reporter...
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2021: Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Children's New Books: February 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: Chapter Books with Color Illustrations
Children's Special Topics: Chapter Books with Color Illustrations
Description
Kira teams up with Evie, a student at the animal sanctuary to track down the paradise parrot--a bird thought to be extinct--and prove that it still exists. 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. As the bushfires rage out of control, Kira makes...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Bay Area-based reporters for The Guardian, Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano, relate the story of the worst American wildfire in a century, weaving together a portrait of the remarkable California community of 27,000 souls, destroyed wholesale in a fire that left 86 dead, while offering a bigger-picture exploration of the science of wildfires in a time of dramatic climate change. Alastair Gee is a seasoned science/nature writer based in San Francisco...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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. While on a weekend camping trip in the Rocky Mountains, a raging inferno separates Bella from her people. Alone in the wilderness, Bella unexpectedly finds herself responsible for the safety of two defenseless mountain lion cubs. Torn between two equally urgent goals, she wants to find her way home to Lucas...
Author
Publisher
Margaret Quinlin Books, Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Australian bushfires roar above Wombat's home. He is fortunate that his burrow is deep below ground and he is safe. He snuggles under his crazy quilt and drinks his tea. Soon his frightened friend Wallaby shows up at his door. 'Oh Wombat! I c-c-can't reach my home! M-m-may I stay with you awhile?' Wombat pauses only for a tick of the clock, and says, 'Come in!' Then, one by one, five uniquely Australian animals - the Wallaby, a Kookaburra, a Platypus,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Gap Mountain, California, everyone knows about fire season. And no one is more vigilant than Hannah Warner, the sheriff's daughter and aspiring FBI agent. When Hannah and her best friends accidentally spark an enormous and deadly wildfire, their instinct is to lie to the police and the fire investigators. As the blaze roars through their rural town and towards Yosemite National Park, Hannah's friends begin to crack, and she finds herself going...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Rory Ramos is a dutiful teenager with a love of photography who works as a ranch hand at the stable her stepfather manages in Topanga Canyon, a dry, dusty place reliant on horses and hierarchies. There she rides for the rich clientele, including twins June and Wade Fisk. June begins to take an interest in Rory-but she is more drawn to Vivian Price, the beautiful teenager with the movie-star father, who lives down the hill and, Rory can't help noticing,...
17) Paradise on fire
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Fire chief Miles McEwan, scarred and haunted by a terrible death, confronts the blackened spectre of the past as he struggles to protect the remote Yukon town of Ross River from a raging inferno set by an unknown arsonist and to rescue his daughter.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this gripping memoir, the sole survivor of the disastrous 2013 fire in Yarnell, Arizona recalls the natural disaster that took the lives of 19 firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. On June 30, 2013, during a fire at which McDonough was serving as lookout, a freak inferno trapped and killed all 19 members of his crew. "My Lost Brothers" traces McDonough's minute-by-minute account of witnessing his fellow firefighters' brave, selfless...
20) 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.
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