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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
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.
4) 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
I survived volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city, but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode. An army of firemen is trying to help, but this fire is a ferocious beast that wants to devour everything in its path, including Oscar! Will Oscar survive one of the most famous and devastating...
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.
7) Wildfire
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
13) 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...
15) 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.
16) 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.
20) The fire station
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Classic stories from Robert Munsch in an early reader format kids will love! Text has been adapted from the originals so beginner readers can proudly say "I read this myself!" Colorful and fun, Robert Munsch's zany stories and Michael Martchenko's illustrations will grab kids' attention and keep them interested as they practice their reading skills. Munsch Early Readers are packed with extras, including phonics introduction and activity, getting...
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