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Backfire

Name: Backfire
Brand: Lerner Publishing
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ISBN: 9781512435047

By Vanessa Acton

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Length: 79 pages52 minutes

Publisher:: Lerner Publishing
Released:: Jan 1, 2017
ISBN:: 9781512435047
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After losing his job and getting grounded, Elijah is sure this will be the worst summer ever. Little does he know, it's about to get worse. News breaks that a wildfire is burning out of control—and it's headed straight for his town. As the fire nears, Elijah must act quickly. Should he evacuate? Can he and his friends escape the flames? And what will they lose along the way?

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Backfire

By Vanessa Acton

Length: 79 pages52 minutes

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Publisher:: Lerner Publishing
Released:: Jan 1, 2017
ISBN:: 9781512435047
Format:: Book

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Vanessa Acton

Vanessa Acton is a writer and editor in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She enjoys stalking dead people (also known as historical research), drinking too much tea, and taking long walks during her home state's annual three-week thaw.

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Names: Acton, Vanessa, author.

Title: Backfire / by Vanessa Acton.

Description: Minneapolis : Darby Creek, [2017] | Series: Day of disaster | Summary: A wildfire threatens to obliterate everything in a boy’s town. All he knows might be lost. Will he make it out in time? And will his home survive the blaze?— Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016019272 (print) | LCCN 2016034211 (ebook) | ISBN 9781512427752 (lb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781512430943 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781512427820 (eb pdf)

Subjects: | CYAC: Wildfires—Fiction. | Fires—Fiction. | Survival—Fiction. | Nevada—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.A228 Bac 2017 (print) | LCC PZ7.1.A228 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016019272

Manufactured in the United States of America

1-41500-23361-7/21/2016

For H. A., who can’t do simple math, and for A. W., who can do so much more than that: I’ll need you on my team for the apocalypse.

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Elijah

The day of the disaster, Elijah was bored out of his mind. He was supposed to be on a camping trip with his friends, not sitting at home with a dog who hated him and an uncle who treated him like a kid.

For the past forty-eight hours, Marco had kept Elijah busy with chores. This is character building, Elijah—Marco’s favorite phrase. When your uncle is your legal guardian, you can still argue with him, but it won’t get you very far.

This morning, Marco was giving Elijah a break. The lawn was mowed, the floors were mopped, the laundry was done. Elijah figured his character must be built enough for one weekend. Which meant he could spend today doing what Hayden, Nevada, was best known for: nothing.

So now Elijah sat on the living room couch watching Storage Locker Makeover. Serafina, the overweight dog, lay on the floor in front of the game cabinet with one suspicious eye open. That mutt must be at least half-cat. If you hugged her, petted her, even rubbed her ears, she’d look at you like, Come on. Aren’t we both adults? After a year of living with Marco, Elijah had figured out that Serafina just wanted to be left alone. He respected that. He often felt the same way in Marco’s house.

Elijah wondered when Brenna and Keegan and Nicole would get back from Topaz State Park. Probably tonight, since it was Sunday. School didn’t start for three more weeks, but his friends all had summer jobs. He’d had one too, until this Thursday.

It hadn’t been his fault, getting fired. He’d arranged for a coworker to cover his Thursday shift so he could pack for the trip. When the coworker didn’t show up, the manager blamed Elijah. Never mind that people flaked on their shifts all the time—the manager had never liked Elijah. It had something to do with the fact that serving concessions in a movie theater wasn’t Elijah’s dream job. And the fact that Elijah got bored sometimes, messed around sometimes, ate patrons’ leftover popcorn sometimes. In the manager’s mind that added up to being a lazy, unreliable worker.

Elijah’s uncle was on the manager’s side. You gave up on that job long before now, Marco had said. You stopped trying. That’s just as bad as if you’d quit. In Marco’s mind, quitting was worse than some federal crimes. And even though Elijah hadn’t technically quit, the punishment was the same.

Which was how a weekend of camping with friends became a

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