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Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Environmental scientist Ferin Anderson and author Stephanie Sammartino McPherson examine how Indigenous people, farmers, and forestry departments have used fire to manage resources and how climate change is impacting the future of fire"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
324 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates ; color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
On May 5, 2007, two days into his twenty-seventh trip to the Boundary Waters, Stephen Posniak found a perfect spot on Ham Lake and set about making a campfire. Over the next two weeks, the fire he set would consume 75,000 acres of forest and 144 buildings. More than one thousand firefighters would rally to extinguish the blaze, at a cost of 11 million dollars. Gunflint Burning is a comprehensive account of the dramatic events around the Ham Lake...
3) Wildfires!
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Educates students about wildfires, their causes, and how they can affect both people and the environment. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the extent of the damage caused by some of the most destructive wildfires of all time. Examines how people recovered from these events and includes full-color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
5) Wildfires
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains the causes and effects of wildfires. Also discusses surviving wildfires. Includes real-world math activities related to wildfires, a glossary, and further resources.
6) Wildfires
Author
Publisher
Dash! Leveled Readers, an imprint of Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This transitional reader title gives information about how and why wildfires happen, their effects, and wildfire safety. This series is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to the Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Dash! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Examines the danger of wildfires, and highlights seven wildfire rescues from around the world. Also discusses rescue workers and the tools they use. Includes tips for surviving a wildfire, color photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"J.J., Molly, and Leila had once been inseparable, but it's been a long time since college, and life--not to mention distance--have disrupted the former roommates' friendship. When the three reunite for a birthday weekend in Las Vegas, the lottery ticket they buy on a whim has the winning numbers--giving them a billion-dollar windfall. Shell-shocked, they turn to Shea Daniels, a "sudden wealth manager," who promises to guide them through the pitfalls...
Author
Series
Survivalist volume 5
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
10) Smoke screen
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado home town. His mother begs him to come to Carlisle 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
89 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this partially illustrated early chapter book, a family return to their home in the forest after a wildfire to find their house still standing and an orphaned bear cub in the well."-- Provided by publisher.
14) Wildfires
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents wildfires as neither good nor bad but as part of the endless cycle of change in forests and grasslands.
15) Wildfire rescue
Author
Series
Disaster squad volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Jackson family, including eight-year-old Jaden and his sister Leela, travel the United States responding to disasters, helping people and rescuing animals--but they have never responded to a wildfire like the one raging in Northern California.
16) Ablaze
Author
Series
Off the itinerary volume 3
Publisher
M. Liz Boyle
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
“This summer the Stanley sisters and the Miles boys are excited to hike together again, and now they have the unique opportunity to help two of their ranger friends with an outdoor program in the beautiful Montana mountains. Marlee and her sisters have been assigned to help with Ranger Rose's team, and they are savoring the adventure. But in a heartbeat while the group is divided by a few hundred feet, fire breaks out between Ranger Rose and Marlee's...
17) Radiant heat
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a catastrophic wildfire suddenly rips through a woman's hometown, she thinks she is lucky to have survived...until she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it.... Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the damp tiles of her bathroom, her entire body swaddled in a wet woolen blanket. The flames crackled around her, the bitter char of eucalyptus settling in the back of her throat. The wildfire devastated...
Author
Series
Extincts volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
133 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Extincts are back and ... Lug is leaving? Fresh off their takedown of the nefarious Dr. Z, the Rescue Ops Acquisition Rangers need a bit of a break. Opening a zoo and gift shop seems like a great idea to Scratch, Martie, Quito, and Ursa, but Lug isn't so sure. Over in California, wildfires are raging and people need help, but can Lug save the day without his friends? When he joins a group of smokejumpers to help put out the fires, Lug starts...
19) Malibu burning
Author
Series
Sharpe and Walker volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend. As the most devastating firestorms in Los Angeles' history scorch the hills of Malibu, relentless arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his wild card of...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Hannah and her best friends accidentally spark an enormous and deadly wildfire, their instinct is to lie, but as the blaze roars through their rural town, Hannah's friends begin to crack and one ends up missing.
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