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2023.
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English
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"In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the largest evacuation ever of a city in the face of a forest fire, raising the curtain on a new age of increasingly destructive wildfires. This book is a suspenseful account of one of North America's most devastating forest fires--and a stark exploration of our dawning era of climate catastrophes"--
"In May 2016, Fort...
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English
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"In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her...
3) Forest fires
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Series
Publisher
Capstone High-Interest Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running for his life, together with a girl, Delphy, from a different camp--finding an old jeep keeps them going, but in the wilds of Maine, there are only logging roads and the deadly crown fire is everywhere.
5) Wildfires
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Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
©2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An illustrated exploration of wildfires that discusses why they occur, how they are fought, the damage they can cause, famous fires, and other related topics; and includes statistics, resources, a glossary, and an index.
6) Forest fires
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Series
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PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses different kinds of forest fires, what causes them, where they occur, and how they can be prevented.
7) Wildfire
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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10) Wildfires
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Presents wildfires as neither good nor bad but as part of the endless cycle of change in forests and grasslands.
11) Forest fires
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Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Questions and answers provide information about forest fires and how they occur.
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Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"The Yellowstone fires of 1988 consumed nearly 800,000 acres--36 percent of the park. In the years following, spectacular wildflowers rose from the ashes and trees rapidly reclaimed the landscape. In this twenty-five-year look back at the fires, author and photographer Jeff Henry recalls not only the summer of 1988, when he witnessed and photographed nearly every aspect of the fires, but also the years since as nature healed the charred landscape."--From...
14) The big burn
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
℗2014.
Language
English
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Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.
15) Fire!
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Publisher
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book on to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in 2002 burned 350,000 acres in one week, the Hinckley fire did the same damage in five hours. The fire created its own weather, including hurricane-strength winds,...
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Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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...
18) Fire storm
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Alex enjoys kayaking behind the raft of his aunt and uncle as they journey down Idaho's Salmon River, until they find themselves in the middle of a forest fire.
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English
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Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
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