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41) Sunshine
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
For most of Ben's life, he has been a kid without a mom. He has his dad, who knows Ben doesn't like oatmeal and always hugs Ben before bed. And he has Sunshine, his loyal little dog, who is never far from his side. But his mom, who left when he was young, has just been a story, faint in his memory. Now he's about to spend a whole week with her on her remote island in the middle of the northern Minnesota wilderness. Though he's nervous about bears...
44) Hero cat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A cat gives birth to a litter of kittens in an abandoned building that catches fire while she is out searching for food.
49) Firehorse Max
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Formats
Description
Grandpa Lev buys a new horse, Max, to pull his peddler's cart. Max used to be a firehorse, so whenever he hears the alarm bells ring, he takes off for the fire. Grandpa Lev has to find a way to keep Max from running off with the cart every time he hears an alarm.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Growing up, David Almerin Ames and his brothers, Link and Simon, believed the wild patch of Maine where they lived along the Penobscot River belonged to them. Running down the state like a spine, the river shared its name with the people of the Penobscot Nation, whose ancestral territory included the entire Penobscot watershed—the land upon which the Ames family eventually made their home.
The brothers’ affinity for the natural world derives...
51) Hot spot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A wildfire in Rocky Mountain National Park poses several problems for Chief Anna MacElreath and her Firestormers; not only does she have to work with a touchy career-oriented local fire chief, but a group of conservationists is determined to force her to save the area that is the habitat of the whooping crane--even if it means risking their own lives.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Chief of Police Samuel Craddock is perplexed by a series of increasingly troubling events at Granger's Store. The shop owner's son, Mark Granger, has plans to renovate and modernise the popular animal feed store in the small Texas town of Jarret Creek. But when he's assaulted, its clear that some town folk are against his ideas. Could the devastating fire that follows be linked to the threatening phone calls Mark has been receiving? When the body...
55) Back burn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When the Firestormers are sent to a wildfire in North Cascades Park, former special operations soldier Sergeant Heath Rodgers, still annoyed that he did not get the promotion to Lieutenant, is resentful at having to take orders from Jason Garrett, but when a group of "Hotshots" fighting the fire disappears he is devastated--his younger brother, whom he trained, is one of the missing.
56) Fire front
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Jason Garrett trained as a fire fighter in Portland, Oregon, but when his father, a state senator, pulls some strings he finds himself on an elite wildfire fighting crew called the Firestormers, a job he did not ask for, and is not sure he can handle--especially when Chief Anna MacElreath puts him in charge on his very first wildfire.
57) Bone yard
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When they are assigned to create a fire break to contain a wildfire burning near Denali National Park in Alaska, Amalia Rendon's crew of elite Firestormers runs into a problem--a small village of stubborn people living off the land who do not want to leave their homes and are too ready to dismiss the danger to their lives.
58) Woodsburner
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
On April 30, 1844, a year before he built his cabin on Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed three hundred acres of the Concord woods - an event that altered the landscape of American thought in a single day. Against the backdrop of Thoreau's fire, Pipkin's ambitious debut penetrates the mind of the young philosopher while painting a panorama of the young nation at a formative moment.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 52
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
At the request of his beloved Beulah the collie, Hank the Cowdog puts aside his urge to chew plastic and sets off in search of his nemesis, Plato the wayward bird dog.