A 2007/2008 Sunshine State Young Reader Award nominee
Wildfire!
by Elizabeth Starr Hill
640 Lexile
(a teacher's guide and resource for lesson plans)
Other books in Lamarque's Media Center
by Elizabeth Starr Hil:
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Bird Boy |
Related materials in Lamarque Media Center:
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How it happens at the fireworks factory |
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Smokejumpers by Elaine Landau |
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Smokejumpers one to ten by Chris L. Demarest |
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Hotshots! by Chris L. Demarest | |
 Big-mouth Elliott, who has recently arrived from a city up north, considers Ben a "backwoods boy" and looks down his nose at folks in their rural Florida town. To make matters worse, Elliott is the one who gets the dog that Ben's neighbor puts up for adoption -- the one Ben had his heart set on. In spite of being jealous and resentful, Ben can't stop himself from trying to win Elliott's approval, and he does something very stupid, very dangerous, on a bone-dry Fourth of July evening, when fireworks have been banned because of the fire risk.
Illustrated with vivid wash-and-line drawings, this dramatic small-town story builds to a gripping conclusion as a boy races against time to make up for his own big mistake.
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