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Lawrence, Iain

Summary: Separated from his siblings in the midst of a dangerous forest fire, 11-year-old Virgil must find a way to survive using only his wits and the lessons his late mother taught him about the wilderness.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LAW

Lawrence, Iain

Summary: Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAW

Manning, Matthew K.

Summary: Zora Michaels hides her genius and passion for technology behind a girly image, but when a boy goes missing just as a forest fire threatens, Zora and a Drone Academy friend help.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MAN

Long, Loren.

Summary: When Otis the tractor becomes trapped in a burning barn, after rescuing kittens, his animal friends and local firefighters come to his aid.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE OTI

Lang, Heidi

Summary: Abby, Emma, and Ollie are squabbling sisters on a punishment hike up a mountain with their camp counselor, Dana, when they suddenly find themselves completely on their own, and spot the smoke of a forest fire above them; in order to survive they need to learn to depend on each other--or the name of the hiking area, No Return Wilderness, may prove to be prophetic.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022

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Darraj, Susan Muaddi

Summary: Feeling guilty over the house fire she might have started, Farah Hajjar channels her energy into starting a creative writing club at the Magnet Academy where she is a new sixth-grader. Includes writing prompts and glossaries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DAR

Tarshis, Lauren

Summary: "Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC TAR

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: The story of True Norwegian Black Metal and its most notorious practitioners: a group of young men with a flair for publicity, church-burning, and murder: MAYHEM. Oslo, 1987. Seventeen-year-old Euronymous is determined to escape his idyllic Scandinavian hometown and create ₁true Norwegian black metal₂ with his band, MAYHEM. He's joined by equally fanatical youths - Dead and Varg. Believing that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR LOR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR

Henry, April

Summary: "When a fire engulfs an Oregon forest, a group of trapped hikers must find another way out"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HEN

Collins, Peggy

Summary: Harley is a service dog to elementary school teacher Ms. Prichard, who needs a quiet, orderly environment. One of her students, Amelia, has auditory sensitivities of her own. When a small fire throws the class into chaos, Harley must help Ms. Prichard -- but he's also the only one who can convince Amelia to come out of hiding.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COL

Creamer, Kathy

Summary: Discovering an orphaned tiger cub at the bottom of the big old rambutan tree, an intelligent and gentle orangutan, named Ginger, rescues him and brings him up as her own child, despite the warnings from the other orangutans about tigers being their natural enemy, and that Ginger would one day become the tiger's dinner. Ginger teaches the tiger cub all she knows about the world, and how to live...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Creamer 2020

Alikhan, Salima

Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALI

Long, Loren

Summary: When Otis the tractor becomes trapped in a burning barn, after rescuing kittens, his animal friends and local firefighters come to his aid.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2016

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Perks, Heidi

Summary: Laura has returned to work at Morris and Wood after her maternity leave, only to discover that the woman she brought in to cover for her isn't planning on going anywhere. Despite her close relationship with the agency's CEO, Harry Wood, Laura feels sidelined-- and outmaneuvered. Mia was only supposed to be a temporary hire at Morris and Wood, but she's managed to make herself indispensable to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

Collins, Ailynn

Summary: "The year is 1910. This summer in the Pacific Northwest has been the driest anyone has seen in a long time. The weather is extremely hot and windy. Crops are drying up everywhere. Then, in August, one of the beggest forest fires in U.S. history is sparked. Will you join the fight to battle the fires and save your town? Do you help lead others to safety or try to escape before the town is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COL

Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)

Summary: 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 hislife, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019

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Fujimoto, Tatsuki

Summary: In a frozen dystopia where inhabitants eat flesh to survive, can the destructive powers of fire bring salvation? In the not-too-distant past, the Ice Witch blankets the world in snow, starvation, and madness, leading the inhabitants to seek their salvation in fire. With that, an unusual destiny unfolds for two young orphans, Agni and Luna, blessed with the ability to regenerate. But will this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FIR

Kahaney, Amelia

Summary: "Best friends Syd, Rain, and Brie grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in the stifling California desert, desperately wishing for a way out. When a deadly fire is set two weeks before the end of high school, nothing will ever be the same. In the end, each of them will escape--but not in the way any of them expects. One will do it by dying, another by lying, a third by taking the fall."--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KAH

Kwaymullina, Ambelin

Summary: The ghost of a girl who recently died in an accident makes contact with her grieving father to help solve a mystery in a remote Australian town, where a girl who speaks entirely in riddles is the only witness to a fatal fire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KWA

Garland, Michael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 1998

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC GARLA

Gabhart, Ann H.

Summary: "Widow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home. But is this scarred and reclusive man ready for all the changes these women will bring to his life?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Weeks, Sarah

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEE

Gilbert, Julie

Summary: It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GIL

Tarshis, Lauren

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION TAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J SeriesTarshis

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