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English
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 ... In a desperate move for attention ... Gabe sets off fireworks in the woods near his house and causes a small forest fire ... In the chaos of the destruction, a coyote named Rill ... finds herself far from home ... Gabe and Rill's paths irrevocably cross when Gabe is tasked with cleaning up the forest ... The damage to...
3) Scat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
" Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class are relieved. But when the principal tries to tell the students that Mrs. Starch has been called away on a 'family emergency,' Nick...
Author
Series
Al Capone at Alcatraz volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden.
6) Soof
Author
Series
So B. it volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
All her life Aurora has heard stories about how wonderful and lucky Heidi is, and soon this paragon (now grown up and expecting a baby) will be visiting; but before she arrives part of their house is damaged in a fire, and worse, Aurora's beloved dog disappears--and while her parents have always believed in "soof" (Heidi's mom's word for love), Aurora, who has never really fit in with children her own age, will just have to find her own soof.
Author
Series
The I escaped volume 9
Publisher
Best Day Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"15-year-old Sam is thrilled to be riding a rickety train with his parents in Egypt. It sure is different than America! As the train screeches through the night, Sam goes exploring alone. Suddenly, a fire erupts and a wall of flames splits the train in half. Sam is trapped in the rear cars. Unable to get back to his parents and the safety of their front car, he's shoved to and fro by the panicked crowd. The train picks up speed, racing through the...
Author
Series
Extreme adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After going to the high country to stay with his grandparents, Sam Fox tries to stop cattle rustlers from stealing a stud bull and finds himself isolated in the mountains during a horrific bushfire.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As a boy adjusts to his family's new home in the forest, he learns to observe and appreciate the forest animals, especially a fox with whom he strikes up a friendship--until a wildfire forces both of them to flee for their lives. Includes a note about forest fires and their role in forest ecology.
Author
Series
Farah rocks volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Feeling guilty over the house fire she might have started, Farah Hajjar channels her energy into starting a creative writing club at the Magnet Academy where she is a new sixth-grader. Includes writing prompts and glossaries.
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 7
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue."--
18) Mr. Strong
Author
Publisher
Price Stern Sloan
Pub. Date
1999, c1981
Language
English
Description
Mr. Strong is the strongest person. Usually everything he touched broke but one day Mr. Strong used his strength to put out a fire.
19) Controlled burn
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Maia's parents say she's lucky she noticed something as early as she did. Lucky to have smelled the smoke, lucky to have pulled her sister, Amelia, out of their burning house. But is it really "lucky" when Amelia's stuck in the hospital, covered in burns? And is it "lucky" when Maia knows it was her candle, left unattended, that started the fire in the first place?...As she begins to figure out how to face her guilt and paralyzing...
20) The Lock-in
Author
Series
Haunting of Hawthorne Harbor volume 2
Publisher
Claw, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
At the house shared by Abigail, Thomas, and Daniel the three explain to Mary and James that they search the country for Portals to the dead. They believe a Portal exists in Hawthorne Harbor and the Fire that destroyed the old high school had something to do with it. When a fire breaks out during the Junior/Senior Lock-In exactly fifty years after the Fire, it seems they are right! But are they? And if so, who--or what--is controlling it?