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Paperback – May 30, 2005
by Walt Shiel (Author)
What would you do if a wildfire swept through your area without warning?
In October 1908, a wildfire swept through northeast Michigan and consumed 900 homes and two million acres of farms and forest. Despite the valiant efforts of the farmers, lumbermen, and shopkeepers, only Lake Huron could quench the flames. With no fire watch towers, spotting aircraft, telephones, or organized firefighting and only limited telegraph, warnings were too few and too late.
Devil in the North Woods accurately depicts the fire’s genesis, growth, and aftermath. The story’s real-life protagonist, 10-year-old Henry Hardies, survived the fire but family did not. Relying on Henry’s personal recollections and author Walt Shiel’s faithful recreation of time and place, the book vividly brings Henry’s ordeal to life.
Devil in the North Woods contrasts the terror of nature’s destruction with a chronicle of family, love, sorrow, and recovery. The story leaves the reader buoyed by faith in the resilience of the human spirit and belief in love’s ability to germinate amid the ashes of ruin.
Includes a map and six historical photos.
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Paperback – January 1, 1956
by Ruth Carr Wheeler (Author)
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(1976-09-03) School & Library Binding
– January 1, 1966
Hardcover – May 31, 1999
by Lyn Wendon (Author), Jane Launchbury (Illustrator)
Hardcover – May 2, 2016
by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Author)
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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, 1934
by Ernest Thurston (Author)
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