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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
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.
4) Out of range
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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.
5) Home again
Author
Series
Heartwood Hotel volume 4
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
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"--
6) Hello, Tree
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book inspired by the 2013 Black Forest Fire and told from the viewpoint of a tree watching its home destroyed. This is a story about the kinship between humans and nature, and preservation of the environment"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Maia's parents say she's lucky she noticed something as early as she did. Lucky to have smelled the smoke, lucky to have pulled her sister, Amelia, out of their burning house. But is it really "lucky" when Amelia's stuck in the hospital, covered in burns? And is it "lucky" when Maia knows it was her candle, left unattended, that started the fire in the first place?...As she begins to figure out how to face her guilt and paralyzing...
8) Sunshine
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For most of Ben's life, he has been a kid without a mom. He has his dad, who knows Ben doesn't like oatmeal and always hugs Ben before bed. And he has Sunshine, his loyal little dog, who is never far from his side. But his mom, who left when he was young, has just been a story, faint in his memory. Now he's about to spend a whole week with her on her remote island in the middle of the northern Minnesota wilderness. Though he's nervous about bears...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
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...
10) The tiny mansion
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The last thing twelve-year-old Dagmar wants is to spend her summer vacation squished into a tiny house with her dad, her stepmom, and her annoying five-year-old half brother. But after a sudden financial setback, her family is evicted from their Oakland apartment, and that's just where they end up, parked among the towering redwoods of Northern California. As Dagmar explores the forest around their new and (hopefully) temporary home, she discovers...
11) Fishing in fire
Author
Series
McCall Mountain volume 3
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Things are tense for the middle schoolers in McCall, Idaho, so when Annette Willard suggests a fishing trip, Swann Siddiq, Kelton Fielding, and Hunter and Yumi Higgins all jump at the chance to get away from the drama. The group ventures out into the Idaho woods to Annette's favorite river spot. But with the other four coupling off, Yumi quickly feels like she's the only one catching fish, not feelings. Letting the others stay behind, Yumi makes...
13) Missing Mike
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Caera Donovan and her family flee a wildfire bearing down on their hometown of Pine Grove, with no time to find Caera's beloved dog Mike. Faced with the loss of everything she knows, Caera can't stand to lose Mike as well and seeks a way to sneak back to Pine Grove. When her plans are thwarted, she must learn to embrace a new definition of "home.""--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
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.
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