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1) Droughts
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map.
Language
English
Description
In Droughts, early fluent readers learn about the conditions that lead to and result from catastrophic water shortage. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about the deadliest droughts and how to help prevent them.
An infographic illustrates areas of the world at risk for drought, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about droughts using...
2) Drought
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
4) Skylark
Author
Series
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
6) Droughts
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
What happens to the environment when a drought occurs? What are some of the causes of droughts? What can people do about the problems caused by droughts? How can you use your math skills to learn more about droughts? Read this book to find the answers to these questions and learn more about droughts.
7) Dry
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive. The drought--or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it--has been going on for a while now. Everyone's lives have become an endless list of don'ts: don't water the lawn, don't fill up your pool, don't take long showers. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
11) Dixie storms
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cynthia Barnett's 'Rain' begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science--the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains--with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River... As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge...including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
15) Franny Parker
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Through a hot, dry Oklahoma summer, twelve-year-old Franny tends wild animals brought by her neighbors, hears gossip during a weekly quilting bee, befriends a new neighbor who has some big secrets, and learns to hope.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed...
Author
Series
Publisher
45th Parallel Press/Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The events surrounding the Dust Bowl did not look the same to everyone involved. Step back in time and into the shoes of an Oklahoma farmer, a migrant farm worker, and a government journalist as readers act out scenes that took place in the midst of this historic event. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are made to build confidence as readers engage and read aloud. This book includes a table...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
This book relays the factual details of the Dust Bowl through multiple accounts of the event. Readers learn details from the point of view of an Oklahoma farmer, a migrant farm worker, and a government journalist. This book offers opportunities to compare and contrast various narrative perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about an historical event.
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