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Fire on Headless Mountain / Iain Lawrence.

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0823446549
  • ISBN: 9780823446544
  • Physical Description: 245 pages
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Holiday House, [2022]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
Ages 9 to 12.
Grades 4-6.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 23.99
Subject: Forest fires > Juvenile fiction.
Survival > Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and sons > Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Grief > Juvenile fiction.
Oregon > Juvenile fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Innisfil Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lakeshore Branch.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch J FIC Lawre 31681020181848 JFIC Available -

Iain Lawrence once had a summer job fighting forest fires on Vancouver Island. He is the author of seventeen novels for young readers that have received such accolades as Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature and the California Young Reader Medal. Among the many books he has written are The Wreckers, Ghost Boy, Lord of the Nutcracker Men, The Skeleton Tree, and most recently Deadman’s Castle. He lives in the Gulf Islands, British Columbia. Visit him at iainlawrence.com.


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