Seldovia Sam & the Wildfire Escape (The Misadventures of Seldovia Sam) - Softcover

Susan Woodward Springer; Amy Meissner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882406019 ISBN 13: 9780882406015

Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books, 2005

Synopsis

This exciting series of beginning chapter books follows the energetic and curious Sam on his adventures in beautiful Seldovia, Alaska, where he lives with his parents and dog, Neptune. Humor, family relationships, survival, natural history, and geography are all part of Sam's ""misadventures."" A map and author's note portray the real Seldovia while lively illustrations help readers to visualize characters and place. A great choice for avid and reluctant readers! In this new adventure, Sam discovers and reports a wildfire that is dangerously close to the isolated community of Seldovia. When the townspeople gather to be evacuated onto fishing boats, Sam realizes his friend's family hasn't made it to the docks and heads out to find them! Heroic Sam and Neptune escort the family and rescue their litter of kittens. Included is natural history information about the spruce bark beetle life cycle and wildfires-the dangers as well as the benefits to the forest and wildlife.

About this title

From the Author:

"Alaska is so big that if you could lay it on top of the continental United States, it would cover one-fifth of all the other states. And there really is a place called Seldovia. It's about 250 miles south of Anchorage. But there are no roads to get there. To reach Seldovia you have to fly in a plane or take a boat. Some of the place-names in Sam's stories are real; others are made up. Like Sam's parents, lots of men and women in Seldovia fly Bush planes and fish commercially. Is there a real Sam Peterson in Seldovia? Not by that name. But there's a little bit of Sam in all the kids of Seldovia, just as I suspect there's a little bet of Sam in you."   ---Susan Woodward Springer

From the Back Cover:

Wow! Things are really heating up in Sam's latest adventure--- a wildfire is raging in the forest near Seldovia, and Sam is stirred into action when his friends need him. But, as you'll soon discover, Nepture, Sam's dog, is the hero of the day.Wow! Things are really heating up in Sam's latest misadventure---a wildfire is raging near Seldovia, and Sam is stirred into action when his friends need him. But, as you'll discover, Neptune the dog is the hero of the day.
Sam doesn't go looking for trouble, but he always seems to find it! As in the other Seldovia Sam books, readers learn more about nature, friendship, and heroism in this, the third book in the The Misadventures of Seldovia Sam series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0882406019
• ISBN 13: 9780882406015
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 64