The Big Burn
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · Hardcover · June 1, 2002
Jarrett is sixteen—old enough to reject the railroad job his father wants him to take, old enough to court Lizbeth Whitcomb, old enough to join the fight against the forest fires that are destroying Idaho and Montana.
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- Who it’s for
- A coming-of-age story meets the scale of a wildfire that changed how people fight fires.
- Genres
- 20th-Century US YA, YA Survival Stories, Environmental YA
- Published
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 1, 2002
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Jarrett is sixteen—old enough to reject the railroad job his father wants him to take, old enough to court Lizbeth Whitcomb, old enough to join the fight against the forest fires that are destroying Idaho and Montana.
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But the fires are worse than anyone dreamed, and soon the flames have has come between Jarrett and everything he holds dear, between Jarrett and Lizbeth, and thrown him into the company of a young black private named Seth, whose own plans to desert the army have been cutshort by the disaster. A about the biggest wildfire of the century--the big blow-up of 1910--The Big Burn is a portrait of a time, a place, and an event that changed the way we fight wildfires, altered the landscape of Idaho and Montana, and transformed forever the lives of the people at the front lines.
Fire and Consequence
A coming-of-age story meets the scale of a wildfire that changed how people fight fires.
Come here for
- A 1910 wildfire seen through young lives caught in its path
- Wilderness danger and hard choices under pressure
Expect
- Personal stakes alongside a sweeping environmental disaster
- A historical lens on the lives reshaped by the flames
Where it sits
| 20th-Century US YA | 94% |
|---|---|
| Environmental YA | 80% |
| YA Survival Stories | 54% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- 20th-Century US YA
- Authors
- Jeanette Ingold
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published
- June 1, 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- 20th-Century US YA