{"title":"Jessica Lawson","description":"Jessica Lawson is the critically acclaimed author of The Actual \u0026amp; Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher, a book that Publishers Weekly called \"a delightfully clever debut\" in a starred review, and Nooks \u0026amp; Crannies, a Junior Library Guild Selection and recipient of three starred reviews. She is also the author of Waiting for Augusta (winner of the Colorado Book Award),  Under the Bottle Bridge, and How to Save a Queendom. Her debut picture book is Ablaze, a biography of the nation's first female wildfire-fighting smoke jumper. You can visit her at JessicaLawsonBooks.com.","products":[{"product_id":"ablaze-the-story-of-americas-first-female-smokejumper-hardcover","title":"Ablaze: The Story of America's First Female Smokejumper - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lyrical and empowering biography on Deanne Shulman, America's first female smokejumper.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeanne loved being outdoors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith her family, she spent summers sailing the Salton Sea and backpacking the Sierra Nevada Mountains. As she grew older, her love of nature only grew. So when the heat rose each fire season and the blazes burned near and far, she noticed. Deanne knew she had to do her part in fighting the fires. She spent years on woodland crews, clearing brush and branches that could make the fire spread, and on hotshot crews where she fought faster fires and took bigger risks, spending weeks in one-hundred-degree heat working twenty-four-hour shifts. But what Deanne really wanted was to be a smokejumper, to jump from planes and parachute into dangerous wildfires that no truck could ever reach. To be the first line of defense. The only problem? There had never been a female smokejumper before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith lyrical text from Jessica Lawson and striking illustrations from Sarah Gonzales, \u003ci\u003eAblaze\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Deanne Shulman's groundbreaking work with the United States Forest Service as she fought against unfair rules and blazed the way for women in firefighting.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375972286687,"sku":"9780593463659","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Vdu15KvwCh9780593463659.webp?v=1789210947"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jessica-lawson.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}