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Three siblings searching for the truth about their family are about to find more than they bargained for. For years, Brandon Ferringer has sought to untangle the mystery surrounding his father's disappearance. Now training as a hotshot--a seasonal wildland firefighter--Brandon feels he's on the verge of finally discovering the truth.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text reveal the struggles of forest animals to survive when fire breaks out on Spruce Mountain, and the actions of the firefighters who work through the night to stop the blaze.

The reader becomes a student enrolled in a summer training program as a smoke jumper in the Pacific Northwest, an area hit hard by a number of small, suspicious forest fires. "Smoke Jumpers by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU, a hotshot firefighter-in-training, on a daring adventure in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. 9-12 year old readers will jump from a plane and show off their parachuting skills, fight dangerous fires, thwart a band of crooks...

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...