Third copy purchased from the Croydon Hills Baptist Church op-shop for local or themed release.

From back cover:
"They were blackened, their feet were cut, even their hair was singed. They beat and beat, and fire was leaping into the tree tops, and there were no black shadows left, only bright light, red light, yellow light, light that was cruel and hard and terrifying."

Listed as #570 on the *1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up* list and available for friends of '1001KidsLibrary'.

Book has been neatly covered to protect it on its journey, with an official BookCrossing sticker on the front.

Book donated Monday, June 30 2014 for special release.

The boys never meant to cause trouble. They’d planned to go camping, but somehow the fire got started and soon all the lives and possessions of everyone along Ash Road were in jeopardy.


An amazing story of adventure and survival as a wildfire sweeps through the countryside.


To share the language of the book, here’s a little excerpt:


“(The fire) came upon (Grandpa’s) vision as something living and evil, shapeless and formless, constantly changing, huge beyond comprehension: an insane creature of immense greed consuming everything around it whether the taste pleased it or revolted it, rejecting what it did not care for only after it had mauled and savaged it, then pitching it aside or spitting it into the heavens.”

Added to the 1001 Kids Library at BookCrossing!

Picked up from my mum's place.
I will leave this book on the shelf in the book room (Official BookCrossing Zone), at the Creswick Neighbourhood Centre. Happy reading!