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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting narrative that recreates the event with drama...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sheriff's deputy Alex Brady, who still grieves his father's death on September 11, concentrates on fighting crime in Los Angeles, until the worst fire season in California history sends him in pursuit of environmental terrorists.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 13 x 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frank and the other firefighters are ready at a moment's notice to battle any blaze within the town, and when a fire breaks out in an apartment building, they leave their dinner and rush to the scene. On board pages.
Author
Series
Walt Longmire mystery volume 18
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Susan Orlean reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution--our libraries"--
"Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden"--
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author tells of her grandfather's experiences as a boy living in a lodge deep in the woods in Ontario, Canada. It relates how people and animals joined together to survive a forest fire and how it affected his life.