Name: Out of the Fires By Carrie Lara
SKU: 9781433840692
Price: 3.88 USD
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Out of the Fires Summary

Out of the Fires: A Journal of Resilience and Recovery After Disaster by Carrie Lara

After a fire destroys his home and neighborhood, a young boy must learn what it means to be resilient and to recover.

Let me tell you about that one day everything was there, and then there was nothing.

This inspiring journal will help victims of a natural disaster as they follow a boy who is healing after a devastating fire in his neighborhood. A journal filled with drawings, news clippings, and coping strategies, this book is chock full of information on cultivating resilience after a natural disaster. Things may never be normal again, but he discovers that he is resilient and strong-even when hard things happen. Includes end matter on the topic of building resilience.

Out of the Fires Reviews

The aftermath of a natural disaster becomes an educational narrative.

Narrated by a boy coming back to school following a wildfire that canceled classes for two weeks, this book is intended to help young people grappling with similar events. The first section deals with the return to school in paragraphs broken up by related, colored pencil-esque images. The boy learns strategies for dealing with trauma (writing, drawing, taking deep breaths). It's not until the second section that readers discover exactly what happened, though the author's introduction details the 2017 California wildfires that inspired the book. This section describes the fire and the boy and his family's evacuation, giving readers a child's-eye view that, amid the chaos, grounds itself in people's kindness. The narrator's reaction to the fire evolves over time; sometimes he feels angry, other times sad and lost. Moments of frustration are conveyed, too: My emotions exploded, he says, alongside an image of a mushroom cloud. However, seeing his friends again makes him feel happy; the child's emotional journey will reassure both young people and adults. Interspersed news clippings describe what is happening in the community at large, though the narrator mostly focuses on his personal journey. At the end, however, he discusses worldwide disasters, and he and his classmates send encouraging messages to kids in Australia, where wildfires also raged.

-- Kirkus

About Carrie Lara

Carrie Lara, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked with a range of clients, from children and families to adults
with severe mental illness. She is an award-winning children's book author whose books include Marvelous Maravilloso and The Heart of Mi Familia. She lives in Sonoma County, CA with her family, where they have had first hand experience surviving the natural disaster of wildfires. Visit carrielara.com and @AuthorCarrieLara on Facebook and Instagram.

Colleen Larmour is a children's book illustrator and author living in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. She graduated from the Cambridge School of Art masters course in children's book illustration. Her published titles include Under the Silvery Moon, Little Friend, Making Friends: A Book About First Friendships and Our Green City.

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CIN1433840693G

ISBN 13

9781433840692

ISBN 10

1433840693

Title

Out of the Fires: A Journal of Resilience and Recovery After Disaster by Carrie Lara

Author

Carrie Lara

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

American Psychological Association

Year published

20230704

Number of pages

64

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N/A

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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