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1) Skyscraper
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Global superstar Dwayne Johnson leads the cast as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer, who now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in Hong Kong he finds the tallest, safest building in the world, The Pearl, suddenly ablaze, and he's been framed for it. A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who is trapped inside the building, above the...
2) Sunshine
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Abruptly spending a week in a northern Minnesota forest with the mother he has never met, a boy with a faithful imaginary dog learns to camp, canoe, and endure the elements while wondering if his mother will ever return home.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the second book of the powerful new series that reunites the beloved Coleman and Thornton families, New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels brings readers into the turbulent lives of a Kentucky horseracing clan headed by the incomparable Nealy Coleman Diamond. A woman of substance, Nealy rides fast, loves hard, and lives with an appetite for winning no one can match. Now in Kentucky Heat, she tests her deepest beliefs with one shocking...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A compilation of three titles from Gary Paulsen's World of adventure series.
6) The burning
Author
Series
The last gunfighter series volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank Morgan goes up against a band of mercenaries who have been hired by the ranchers to burn the fields, crops, and homes of the farmers in a fierce range war.
Author
Series
Extreme adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2010, c2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After trying to save a prize bull from being stolen by rustlers, Sam Fox finds himself trapped in the mountains as a bushfire rages and he has to rely on Chainsaw, a rodeo bull, to find his way out.
8) Wildfire
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Otis the tractor volume 6
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
ENH
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Otis the tractor becomes trapped in a burning barn, after rescuing kittens, his animal friends and local firefighters come to his aid.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, a devastating firestorm engulfed the picturesque city of Paradise, California. By the time the Camp Fire was extinguished, it had killed 85 people, displaced 50,000 residents and destroyed 95% of local structures. Ron Howard presents a moving story of resilience in the face of tragedy, as a community ravaged by disaster comes together to recover what was lost and begin the important task of rebuilding.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When her caretaker father is wrongly blamed for a deadly house fire, Pearl befriends its only survivor and his friends in hopes of getting answers about what happened that night, but what she uncovers will change her life and the entire town forever.
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Kaya, 1764 volume 2
Kaya classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kaya 1764 volume 2
Kaya classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kaya 1764 volume 2
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Kaya travels with a hunting party into the mountains to look for her stolen horse, but when she smells smoke in the wind she realizes she might be in serious danger.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
15) Bush rescue
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stamp and James are on the road again and they've brought their new friend Ace along. Stamps happy to have a new friend, but no-one has taught Ace any manners! Its up to James and Stamp to show her how to behave if only she would listen! When Daisy Ado the Cockatoo flies into the Fourby, James decides to return her to her owner. But whats that smoky smell on the wind? Theres a bushfire coming to the town of Jasper, and the local vet has his hands...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race. Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach on wild spaces, fear, arrogance, and greed have shaped the way that people view these regenerative events and have given rise to misinformation. The peril that...
17) Soof
Author
Series
So B. it volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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.
18) Young men & fire
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, “Young Men and Fire” describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces...
Author
Publisher
POW!
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Returning to her post on a bench in front of the burned-out remains of a beloved library, a dedicated librarian reads out loud from books that have survived until her persistence helps bolster her community's recovery, in a story inspired by the Bosnian War bombing of the National Library of Sarajevo.
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