Bowen, Carl. Bone Yard. (Firestormers.)
Capstone Publishers 2017 112p
$25.99 ISBN 978-1-4965-3306-7 elem/ms
Adventure VG
Upper-level-elementary and middle-school students who enjoy
learning about natural disasters will appreciate this new title in the Firestormers
series. Written in an easy-to-comprehend
manner, students meet Sergeant Amalia Rendon and the rest of her Firestormers,
an elite firefighting crew who are battling a tremendous wildfire in Denali
National Park in Alaska. With over twenty
thousand acres of wilderness to worry about, the Firestormers are facing a huge
undertaking. While most of the wildfires
are uncomplicated and can be contained, Sergeant Rendon and her team realize
that there’s a small village in the path of the wildfire. As eleven thousand acres of wildfire are approaching
it, Sergeant Rendon is desperate to get the people in the village to leave
their land so that they will be safe.
The houses and people live very modestly, without any form of
electricity and with only basic necessities found on the land. When the people from the village don’t want
to move, Sergeant Rendon takes them to the fire scene and shows them what is
coming. After seeing the blaze for
themselves, the village people decide it is best to relocate after all. Students will cheer for the Firestormers as
they try to save the homes from destruction.
The author includes a glossary of terms, firefighting equipment, and wildfire facts.
The author includes a glossary of terms, firefighting equipment, and wildfire facts.
As of this review, four titles have been published in this new
series. Each title features the elite
crew of heroes battling wildfires.
Wildfires have increased in number, size, and severity, and
only the Firestormers are equipped to take on these immense infernos. "When they are assigned to create a fire
break to contain a wildfire burning near Denali National Park in Alaska, Amalia
Rendon's crew of elite Firestormers runs into a problem--a small village of
stubborn people living off the land who do not want to leave their homes and
are too ready to dismiss the danger to their lives.” This book would make a good addition to an
elementary or middle-school collection for casual reading.
Wildfires-Fiction, Denali National Park and
Reserve-Fiction --Charleen
Forba-MacCain
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