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1) Scat
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Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
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English
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"Demanding a job at the Triple Creek campground in the Colorado Rockies, Jedidiah Stephens is determined to find the truth behind the fire that killed her family but isn't prepared for her attraction to Memphis Osborn, the ruggedly handsome groundskeeper." -- Provided by publisher.
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"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
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English
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Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all--and her adventurous spirit--seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets the school's auditorium ablaze. Ginny's best friend Gray Marsden's father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze. While many in the town believe a notoriously...
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Series
9/11 volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Alex Brady shuts out all relationships when he loses his beloved father in the Twin Towers. Will he have the courage to open his heart to love again?
6) A son's vow
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Series
Charmed Amish life volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Three months ago, everything changed for Darla Kurtz and her family. Darla's father was responsible for a terrible fire at Charm's lumber mill that killed five Amish men. Though her father lost his life, too, the town of Charm hasn't looked at her family the same since. Now her brother's anger at the town is spilling over onto Darla, and she has the bruises to prove it. The accident already cost five lives, but if something doesn't change soon, Darla...
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Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Otis the tractor becomes trapped in a burning barn, after rescuing kittens, his animal friends and local firefighters come to his aid.
8) The mistress
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English
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Chicago, 1871
A nighttime rendezvous, a secretive masquerade, and a city engulfed in flames…
Most days, Kathleen O'Leary is a penniless maid. But tonight, she takes a risk and masquerades as a glamorous heiress, thanks to a borrowed gown and her friends' sense of adventure. To her surprise, the ruse succeeds-even Dylan Kennedy, Chicago's most eligible bachelor, seems enraptured.
But like Kathleen, Dylan isn't who he says he is. And before...
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Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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In the second book of the powerful new series that reunites the beloved Coleman and Thornton families, New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels brings readers into the turbulent lives of a Kentucky horseracing clan headed by the incomparable Nealy Coleman Diamond. A woman of substance, Nealy rides fast, loves hard, and lives with an appetite for winning no one can match. Now in Kentucky Heat, she tests her deepest beliefs with one shocking...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the panic and the stampede that killed; there was no fire. Kathryn Dance--a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert--discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator,...
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Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
700L
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.
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"If any place on God's earth was designed to help one heal, it is Meadowland. Surely here, at her brother-in-law's Kentucky farm, Rose and her daughters can recover from the events of the recent past - the loss of her husband during the 1918 influenza epidemic, her struggle with tuberculosis that required a stay at a sanitarium, and her girls' experience in an orphanage during her illness. At Meadowland, hope blooms as their past troubles become rich...
13) Firestorm
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English
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"A raging forest fire in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park traps exhausted firefighters, including Ranger Anna Pigeon, in its midst. Afterward, Anna finds two from her group have been killed. One a victim of the flames. The other, stabbed through the heart. Now, as a rampaging winter storm descends, cutting the survivors off from civilization, Anna must uncover the murderer in their midst." -- Amazon.
14) Ashes and ice
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English
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When heartache and loss invade Karen Pierce's carefully ordered world, she is devastated. Her plans and dreams for the future seem distant and unattainable, and she is bound by a promise to care for two young adults who are struggling with a loss of their own. Continuing their journey north to the goldfields seems their only option, and Adrik Ivankov agrees to be their guide. With a late start and the constant threat of winter hastening their pace,...
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Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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 both...
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Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 400L
Physical Desc
147 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue." -- Provided by publisher.
19) Come back to me
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Love always endures the test of time. After a devastating fire pitted their families against each other, high school sweethearts Phoebe Ritter and Aidan Payne were torn apart. Twenty years later, Aidan is called back to Blessings, nervous about confronting his painful past. And that's before he knows about the nineteen-year-old secret Phoebe has been harboring all this time. As Aidan tries to make up for lost time with the family he didn't know he...
20) Controlled burn
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Lexile measure
950L
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...