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Firefighters in the Dark
Firefighters in the Dark
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Hardcover
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Dashka gives an overview of the book:

At night, a girl hears the sirens from the fire station near her house.Even though it is dark outside, she knows where they are going: toa castle, to a garden, all the way to Pluto . . . Dashka Slater and Nicoletta Ceccoli have crafted a dreamy ode tofirefighters everywhere and the big, brave, spectacular feats theyaccomplish every day, and every night--all the world over.
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At night, a girl hears the sirens from the fire station near her house.
Even though it is dark outside, she knows where they are going: to
a castle, to a garden, all the way to Pluto . . .

Dashka Slater and Nicoletta Ceccoli have crafted a dreamy ode to
firefighters everywhere and the big, brave, spectacular feats they
accomplish every day, and every night--all the world over.

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The fire station is near my house.

At night, I can hear the sirens howling.

I'm in my bed, and my eyes are closed,

but I listen,

and I know where they are going.

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About Dashka

Dashka Slater is the recipient of a 2004 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her novel, The Wishing Box (Chronicle, 2000), was named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times, which called it “an impish novel...

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