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Hardcover – January 1, 1934
by Ernest Thurston (Author)
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Binding – Illustrated, September 1, 2009
by Dr Alvin Silverstein (Author), Dr Virginia Silverstein (Author), Laura Silverstein Nunn (Author)
Throughout history, fire has been a source of both fascination and great fear. Young readers will want to know what turns small fires into huge infernos and what firefighting techniques are used to try to contain them. Why are wildfires more common in some areas than others? WILDFIRES: THE SCIENCE BEHIND RAGING INFERNOS explores how wildfires form, what causes them to break out of containment efforts, and how scientists study them.
Paperback – December 16, 2014
by Ivan Southall (Author), Maurice Saxby (Introduction)
Winner of the New York Times Book Review Children's Book of the Year, 1966. Commended title, American Library Association, 1966. 'The author has the power to get inside his characters.'—The New York Times 'Conveys with insight the reactions, fears, perplexities, ignorances and behavior of children in a real adult world.' Washington Post ‘The novel is a chronicle of fire and panic, of intense and remarkable perception, and of almost inexhaustibly vivid descriptive language… unforgettable.’ Wall St Journal ‘The description of the fire and the atmosphere of the day are so vividly described…deservedly classic story.’ ReadPlus It's hot and dry on Ash Road, where three boys taste their first independence, camping without adults. When they accidentally light a bushfire, none could guess how far it would go. They are forced to face the consequences with only each other to depend on. Ivan Southall was Australia's first recipient of the Carnergie Medal. An icon of children's literature, he wrote over sixty books. He died in 2008.Hardcover – January 1, 1974
by Bryce Walton (Author)
Accustomed to being a winner, Dan learns some hard lessons during his training to be a forest fire fighter.
Hardcover – January 1, 1963
by Evans G. Valens (Author)
The lightning had struck at the lower end of a broad high valley where the Douglas firs stood straight and close together. The fire reached its bright hungry fingers into the woods and the ground came alive with small scampering animals.
1St Edition
by Irvin Peithann (Author)
Hardcover – October 1, 1981
by Maureen Crane Wartski (Author)
A recently blinded teenage boy and a man-hating German shepherd dog are thrown together in a lonely struggle for survival against a New Hampshire forest fire.
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