{"product_id":"ember-a-wilderness-survival-adventure-9798197147394","title":"Ember: A Wilderness Survival Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): A. Z. Holloway\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Action \u0026amp; Adventure - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen the wildfire crowns the ridge, eleven-year-old Cal Walker has fourteen seconds to decide which canyon to run down - and his father is on the other side of the smoke.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was supposed to be a day hike. Switzer Falls, the Gabrielino Trail, the dry brown country above Los Angeles his father had walked him through since he was four. Red Flag warning out. Phones dead by lunch. By two o'clock the wind has shifted, and the canyon Cal came up is the canyon the fire is coming down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Cal carries: a knife his father gave him on his ninth birthday. A brass compass that belonged to his grandfather. A water bottle that won't last the afternoon. And Boomer, the German shepherd who will not leave him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Cal doesn't carry: any clean way out of the next five days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver five days in the Angeles National Forest, Cal will find water in dry country where every wrong turn costs him more than he has, treat a wound he was never supposed to treat, and learn the difference between the boy his father is hiking with at sunrise and the boy who has to come down the mountain alone by Wednesday afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of \u003ci\u003eHatchet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHoles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eEMBER\u003c\/b\u003e is a wilderness survival adventure for readers 9-12 - about a boy who learns that being responsible for somebody else is not the same thing as being brave, and harder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers who loved: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Gary Paulsen's \u003ci\u003eHatchet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Will Hobbs's \u003ci\u003eFar North\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Roland Smith's adventure novels\u003cbr\u003e- Books where the dog matters as much as the kid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA clean read.\u003c\/b\u003e No magic, no romance, no profanity, no on-page graphic injury. A book parents can hand to their fourth grader without reading it first.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891763331223,"sku":"9798197147394","price":727.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197147394.webp?v=1781184739","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ember-a-wilderness-survival-adventure-9798197147394","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}