A group of smokejumpers rescue three children from a burning cabin while fighting a wildfire, but have to care for them at the station until their parents can be located. No amount of training could have prepared them for this -- their most challenging job yet.

As a member of the North Cascades Smokejumpers, Alexia Allen always takes care of the equipment that keeps her safe. So when she nearly dies in a fire due to equipment failure, she knows something is up. Ordered to take time off while the investigation continues, Alexia makes a last-minute decision to recuperate at her mother's home and attend her high school reunion. Yet trouble seems to be following her, and within hours of arriving home she's involved...

A collection of twenty-eight short stories explores an alternate world where nature renders the human race an endangered species. The fiction of multiple award-winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it in provocative, unexpected...

As a smoke jumper, Reyne Oldre, friend to Rachel Tanner & Beth Morgan (Refuge), once led a team of courageous firefighters into a blaze that ended in unspeakable tragedy. Now crippled by fear, she conducts fire research from a safe distance, determined not to risk that kind of pain again. But when the flames of love begin to flicker between her & smoke jumper Logan McCable, Reyne must face the fearsome storms from her past & battle the raging Firestorm

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In "Smoke Jumpers," dramatic, true stories will keep readers turning the pages as they learn firsthand how these tough, brave firefighters use their strength, quick thinking, and expert skills to battle deadly blazes. Readers will also go behind the scenes to learn how smoke jumpers train for their job so that they are ready to spring into action at a moments notice.

A pilot and a smoke jumper find old grudges turning into renewed attraction when they're forced to rely on each other after a plane crash.

Smoke jumper Evan Donovan works a suspicious brushfire, during which he meets photographer Faye Duncan, who may have unwittingly taken a picture of an arsonist setting the blaze.

Sometimes the worst mistakes turn out to be the best Smoke jumper Wilder Kane once reveled in the rush from putting out dangerous wildfires. But after a tragic accident, he s cut himself off from the world, refusing to leave his isolated cabin. When a headstrong beauty bursts in, Wilder finds himself craving the fire she ignites in him, but letting anyone near his darkness would be a mistake.After her Hollywood life went up in smoke, Quinn Higsby...

"Willa Frank has one simple rule: never go on a date with anyone more than twice. Now that her business is providing the stability she's always needed, she can't afford distractions. Her two-date rule will protect her just fine... until she meets smokejumper Grady Billman" --

"Engaging images accompany information about smoke jumpers. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.