She researched the topic for the novel – which is written in free verse – by watching news footage and videos taken by evacuees, especially from the wildfires that forced some 80,000 people from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alta., in 2016. “It’s terrible that it’s so timely, but it does seem to be our new normal.” ”People tell me, ‘Oh, it’s so timely,’” she said in an interview with the Mirror. Author Shari Green wrote the book during the wildfires of 2017, the worst year on record in terms of hectares burned in B.C. Missing Mike is a story that will be familiar to a growing number of children. An award-winning children’s author from Campbell River is garnering acclaim for her latest novel, which tells the story of a 10-year-old girl named Cara Donovan separated from her dog Mike by a raging wildfire in the fictional town of Pine Grove.
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