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Gooseberry Park volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stumpy, Murray, Gwendolyn, and Kona recruit Herman the crow and 200 owls to help with their master plan to assist the animals of Gooseberry Park that are in trouble because of a months-long drought.
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Language
English
Description
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert and that...
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Language
English
Description
"The much-anticipated first novel from a Story Prize-winning "5 Under 35" fiction writer. In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins's story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with a first novel that harnesses the sweeping vision and deep heart that made her debut so arresting to a love story set in a devastatingly imagined near future. Unrelenting...
4) Skylark
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
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.
5) Droughts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simple text and color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of droughts.
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Language
English
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 who 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 homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the...
9) Droughts
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the science behind droughts, including where and why droughts happen and how to conserve water. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
10) Inland: a novel
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Language
English
Description
"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
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Series
End times novels (Jerry B. Jenkins) volume 1
Language
English
Description
In The Valley of the Dry Bones, Jerry B. Jenkins overlays the ancient End Times prophecies of Ezekiel onto the landscape of modern California. After a 17-year drought, multiple earthquakes, and uncontrollable wildfires, the state is desolate. The United States President declares the state uninhabitable and irreparable, directing California's 39 million citizens to relocate. From the air, California looks like a vast abandoned sand box, but to a few...
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 01
Language
English
Description
When their father invites a mail-order bride on come and live with them in their prairie town, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
16) Khumba
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
A half-striped zebra blamed for the drought in Great Karoo embarks on a quest to earn his stripes by finding the legendary waterhole and saving the animals back home.
17) Droughts
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uses a question-and-answer format to provide information about the causes of droughts, where they occur, their characteristics, and the effects they produce.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking advantage of a severe drought and the long-standing distrust between two tribes, the demonic Saint Dane attempts to take over Loor's home planet of Zadaa, opposed once again by the teenaged Pendragon and other Travelers.
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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...
20) Dry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
790L
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 and 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,...
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