Fire On Headless Mountain

Author : Iain Lawrence
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823446549
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire on Headless Mountain written by Iain Lawrence and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separated from his siblings, 11-year-old Virgil must survive a dangerous forest fire using only his wits and the lessons his late mother taught him about the wilderness. Virgil is making his older siblings trek to a mountain lake on a trip unlike any they've taken before. They carry precious cargo: the ashes of their beloved mother, who asked that her remains be scattered at her favorite spot. Then a forest fire is sparked by a bolt of lightning at the exact moment when their van breaks down, and the journey quickly turns to disaster. Virgil finds himself separated from his brother and sister. With the fire moving closer and closer, he isn’t sure he can make it alone in the wilderness. But with the memory of his late mother, a science teacher, and all her lessons about the ecosystem and fire safety to guide him, he quickly learns that survival starts with letting go of your fears and taking action. Fire on Headless Mountain is a thrilling adventure tale that showcases not only the overwhelming beauty and terrifying power of nature, but also the gift of memory when facing great emotional and physical trials. Praise for DEADMAN’S CASTLE “Lawrence, the Canadian writer whose High Seas Trilogy encompassed three chilling historical novels, now offers a menacing, contemporary tale of dread, danger, and revenge. Portraying family dynamics and middle-school antics with equal insight and attention to detail, Igor’s first-person narrative is absorbing.”–Booklist “Featuring effective worldbuilding, this is a great, suspenseful tale of terror for upper middle graders”.–School Library Journal “Friendship difficulties provide a contrast and an anchor to the terrifying threat, and the various plot elements are deftly tied together in a fitting twist that will have readers quickly turning the pages. Filled with suspense and intrigue."–Kirkus Reviews

Author : Edward Abbey
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795317395
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire on the Mountain written by Edward Abbey and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2011-08-21 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Mexico man faces off against the government in a battle over his land in this novel by the author of Desert Solitaire. After nine months away at school, Billy Vogelin Starr returns home to his beloved New Mexico—only to find his grandfather in a standoff with the US government, which wants to take his land and turn it into an extension of the White Sands Missile Range. Facing the combined powers of the US county sheriff, the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the US Air Force, John Vogelin stands his ground—because to Vogelin, his land is his life. When backed into a corner, a tough old man like him will come out fighting . . . Fire on the Mountain is a suspenseful page-turner by “one of the very best writers to deal with the American West”—the acclaimed author of such classics as The Monkey Wrench Gang and the memoir Desert Solitaire (The Washington Post). “Abbey is a fresh breath from the farther reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier.” —Houston Chronicle “The Thoreau of the American West.” —Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove

Author : Edward Abbey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire on the Mountain written by Edward Abbey and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Meister
Publisher : Prentice Hall Direct
ISBN 13 : 9780133180985
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire on the Mountain written by Meister and published by Prentice Hall Direct. This book was released on 1979-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Iain Lawrence
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 0823446557
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deadman's Castle written by Iain Lawrence and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of his life, Igor and his family have been on the run. Danger lurks around every corner--or so he's always been told. . . . When Igor was five, his father witnessed a terrible crime--and ever since, his whole family has been hunted by a foreboding figure bent on revenge, known only as the Lizard Man. They've lived in so many places, with so many identities, that Igor can't even remember his real name. But now he's twelve years old, and he longs for a normal life. He wants to go to school. Make friends. Stop worrying about how long it will be before his father hears someone prowling around their new house and uproots everything yet again. He's even starting to wonder--what if the Lizard Man only exists in his father's frightened mind? Slowly, Igor starts bending the rules he's lived by all his life--making friends for the first time, testing the boundaries of where he's allowed to go in town. But soon, he begins noticing strange things around them--is it in his imagination? Or could the Lizard Man be real after all? Iain Lawrence is a winner of Canada's Governor General's Children's Literature Prize and the California Young Reader Medal. In Deadman's Castle, he brings readers a mystery filled with intrigue and moments of heart-stopping danger. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Author : Carolyn Hicks
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724710109
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire on The Mountain written by Carolyn Hicks and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darrell and Janette Pratt settle in on the mountain top. Then a fire sweeps across the land. From the city to the country life, their will to survive is tested. A gripping story with action packed surprises, that are sure to draw you in, and keep you there until the very end!

Author : Gerry Meister
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780333248911
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire on the Mountain written by Gerry Meister and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fernanda Santos
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250054036
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fire Line written by Fernanda Santos and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In Fernanda Santos’ expert hands, the story of 19 men and a raging wildfire unfolds as a riveting, pulse-pounding account of an American tragedy; and also as a meditation on manhood, brotherhood and family love. The Fire Line is a great and deeply moving book about courageous men and women.” - Héctor Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle that Set Them Free. When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June of 2013, setting off a blaze that would grow into one of the deadliest fires in American history, the twenty men who made up the Granite Mountain Hotshots sprang into action. An elite crew trained to combat the most challenging wildfires, the Granite Mountain Hotshots were a ragtag family, crisscrossing the American West and wherever else the fires took them. The Hotshots were loyal to one another and dedicated to the tough job they had. There's Eric Marsh, their devoted and demanding superintendent who turned his own personal demons into lessons he used to mold, train and guide his crew; Jesse Steed, their captain, a former Marine, a beast on the fire line and a family man who wasn’t afraid to say “I love you” to the firemen he led; Andrew Ashcraft, a team leader still in his 20s who struggled to balance his love for his beautiful wife and four children and his passion for fighting wildfires. We see this band of brothers at work, at play and at home, until a fire that burned in their own backyards leads to a national tragedy. Impeccably researched, drawing upon more than a hundred hours of interviews with the firefighters’ families, colleagues, state and federal officials, and fire historians and researchers, New York Times Phoenix Bureau Chief Fernanda Santos has written a riveting, pulse-pounding narrative of an unthinkable disaster, a remarkable group of men and the raging wildfires that threaten our country’s treasured wild lands. The Fire Line is the winner of the 2017 Spur Award for Best First Nonfiction Book, and Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction.

Author : Lily Ennis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473221898
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire in the Mountain written by Lily Ennis and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John N. Maclean
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 : 9780688144777
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire on the Mountain written by John N. Maclean and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1999-09-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, on the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded as taking place at South Canyon, it became the first of a series of seemingly small human errors that, three days later, led to the deaths of fourteen fire fighters, including four women. Fire on the Mountain sets out to answer three mysteries that surrounded the blaze: Why wasn't the fire, which could be seen clearly from an interstate highway, put out earlier? Why did Don Mackey, a smoke jumper who was already a legend in his own time, turn back to the fire after making his way to safety? And how could such a seasoned group of fire fighting professionals be caught off guard so badly? With the aid of papers obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and dozens of interviews, Fire on the Mountain also takes a long, hard look at the official investigation that followed the fire and the divided conclusions of the investigative team. If this book is action/adventure at its best, it also offers deeply moving insights into the lives of the smoke jumpers, hot shots, and helitacks who fight forest fires and put their own well being on the line as a daily part of their jobs.