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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As a boy adjusts to his family's new home in the forest, he learns to observe and appreciate the forest animals, especially a fox with whom he strikes up a friendship--until a wildfire forces both of them to flee for their lives. Includes a note about forest fires and their role in forest ecology.
3) Hello, Tree
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A tree's friendship with a girl is threatened by a destructive forest fire, but is renewed after the fire is put out and the forest slowly begins to recover. Inspired by the 2013 Black Forest Fire in Colorado.
5) Out of range
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 strike.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Gabe doesn't know where he belongs anymore. His family is caught up in their own lives and his friends barely have time for him. In a desperate move for attention Gabe sets off fireworks in the woods near his house and causes a small forest fire. In the chaos of the destruction, a coyote named Rill . . . finds herself far from home. Gabe and Rill's paths irrevocably cross when Gabe is tasked with cleaning up the forest. The damage to the land and...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 his life, 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 logging roads and the deadly crown fire is everywhere.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 5
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Although Satan has won the Triple Crown, Alec Ramsay still misses the Black. The upcoming International is the perfect opportunity for the inevitable race between the Black and his colt, Satan, but unexpected events put the horses in the path of a raging forest fire. Suddenly, the horses aren't racing for a cup... they are racing for their lives!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Nikki Roberts feels very grown up when her parents leave her alone in their mountain lodge for a few days. The 13-year-old has promised them she will not take any long horseback rides or canoe trips, so she saddles Goblin and heads for a nearby sheep meadow for the afternoon. It's not long before Nikki's trail leads her into perilous territory. She surprises deadly poachers at work who are shooting bighorn rams for trophies. Her CB radio picks up...
12) Wildfire run
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A relaxing retreat to Camp David turns deadly after a faraway earthquake sets off a a chain of disastrous events that traps the president's twelve-year-old son, Luke, and his two friends within the compound.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Lightning sparks a forest fire deep in the mountains near the town of Waterton. Days later, the sky is blue and the air is clear, so it doesn’t seem like an emergency, until crews of firefighters begin to arrive and townspeople start to prepare. Cricket and her friends watch deer and birds flee the forest and run right through town. But what about the slower animals? What about the porcupines and squirrels, the salamanders and snakes? Cricket...
14) Fire storm
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Alex enjoys kayaking behind the raft of his aunt and uncle as they journey down Idaho's Salmon River, until they find themselves in the middle of a forest fire.
15) Sunshine
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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.
16) Home again
Author
Series
(Kallie),Heartwood Hotel volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Summer has come to Fernwood Forest, and the staff of the Heartwood Hotel must trust each other as they contend with their biggest challenge yet"--
Author
Series
I escaped volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping look at the 2018 California Camp Fire disaster through the eyes of one brave boy"--
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