Ablaze

The Story of America's First Female Smokejumper

By: Jessica Lawson, Sarah Gonzales (Illustrator)

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Hardcover | 30 July 2025 | Edition Number 1

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Hardcover
40 Pages

Age
4 - 7

Dimensions(cm)
28.8 x 22.3 x 1.3

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A lyrical and empowering biography on Deanne Shulman, America's first female smokejumper.

A lyrical and empowering biography on Deanne Shulman, America's first female smokejumper.

Deanne loved being outdoors.

With 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.

With lyrical text from Jessica Lawson and striking illustrations from Sarah Gonzales, Ablaze 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.

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