Weekend Pick for December 13, 2024
 Lesley Roessing | To remind our readers, the December Weekend Picks contributor is Lesley Roessing, a former middle school and high school ELA teacher, a K-8 charter school literary consultant, a Writing Project director and instructor of teacher education, including courses on Adolescent Literature. She shares recommendations and reviews of her reading on her website at https://www.literacywithlesley.com/book-reviews.html. She has written books on literacy for teachers and school librarians, such as Talking Tests: A Teachers’ Guide to Book Clubs across the Curriculum. |
| So far in 2024 from January 1st to October 18th, there have been 42,698 wildfires in the United States covering 7,865,946 acres. Fires across the country are predicted to burn between 4 and 6 million acres of land in 2024. Firefighters work for a variety of federal agencies, state institutions, tribes, and private contractors. These fires are fought on the ground by handcrews, hotshots, and engine crews, and in the air by helitak crews and smokejumpers. Smokejumpers parachute from airplanes to provide quick initial attack on wildland fires in remote areas. Blair Scott has a passion – fighting wildfires. She has a goal—to become a smokejumper even though she is only 19 years old. But Blair also has a secret—she has Type 1 Diabetes, a condition which could keep her from reaching her goal. Blair feels she has to take risks and prove herself as, not only a young recruit, but especially as a woman. But when a tragedy occurs, she realizes the importance of collaboration and community. |  |
 Melanie Crowder | Jumper is a novel of adventure, danger, courage, goals, friendships, support, and, most of all, the power of fire. Well-researched, the novel provides a vast amount of information about wildfire and firefighting training and protocols and will appeal to teen readers, especially those with an interest in adventure and nature. Melanie Crowder is the author of nine very different novels—prose novels, a verse novel, historical fiction, a fantasy series, magical folktale—and a picture book about winds. |
To learn more about Melanie Crowder, visit her home page at https://melaniecrowder.net
Happy reading!
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