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Magic tree house. Original series volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
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English
Description
"Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history."--
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Still mourning the loss of her rock-star husband, Leigh Tremayne didn't know what to expect when his partner invited her to his Florida estate. Derek Mallory blamed Leigh for her husband's death, and she wanted to spend as little time with him as she could. But a hurricane trapped her in Mallory'.
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"A luminous and wrenching portrait of a frighteningly possible future, The Light Pirate is a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world (Booklist, starred review). Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful...
7) Hurricanes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
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English
Description
"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the science behind hurricanes, including where and why hurricanes happen and how to stay safe when the wind starts to blow. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
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"A 38-year-old American interior designer based in London and her independent-minded 74-year-old architect mother; a British investment banker in New York to see his ex-wife and young children; a resident ER doctor who experienced Hurricane Sandy when she was a medical student; two young men, 21-year-old NYU students; their friends; and others are thrust together when a major hurricane descends upon New York City and wreaks unimaginable chaos and...
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Tells the story of five fishermen who, in their eagerness to haul in the catch of a lifetime, stayed too long in the Alaskan waters of Fairweather Grounds and were caught in an Arctic storm that sank their boat in 1998, and discusses the Coast Guard's rescue effort.
10) Storm runners
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Series
Storm runners volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.
11) Tourist season
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Trapped alone in her fiancé's family 'cottage' as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family—especially her fiancé
12) Hurricane!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Hurricane! describes how and where hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons happen.
13) Hurricanes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of hurricanes. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
14) Camino winds
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Camino Island novels volume 2
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English
Description
"Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen - even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime ... Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
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"Hurricane Fanny left no one in Blessings, Georgia unscathed--including Rowan Harper, the only surviving member of her family. Rebuilding her life now seems almost impossible. Bowie James comes back to help repair his grandmother's house, but he doesn't intend to stay long. He and his mother were forced out of Blessings a decade ago, and he's neither forgiven nor forgotten those responsible. But Rowan is kindhearted, beautiful, and lost, and Bowie...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
"Unbeknownst to many, the fairies of Never Land have an intricate community in which everyone is useful to society. And, sadly, the newest arrival, Prilla, just doesn't fit in, for she appears without knowing what her particular talent is. Is she a tinker who likes to fix pots and pans like Tinker Bell? Or should she play with water like sweet Ree? Prilla's problems quickly become moot when the source of all magic on Never Land, a mysterious egg belonging...
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Lexile measure
930L
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English
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"Earth--it's a disaster zone! For thousands of years, Earth has been battered by horrific hurricanes that rage across its surface, wreaking devastation as they move. But what causes these awesome forces of nature and where in the world are they most likely to occur? Discover the science behind hurricane horrors, the world's worst-ever hurricane disasters, and the technology that scientists are using to help prevent devastating hurricanes of the future.."--...
18) Acts of nature
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Max Freeman mysteries volume 5
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English
Description
Undertaking a technology-free vacation in an isolated region of the Florida Everglades, private eye Max Freeman and detective Sherry Richards are caught in the path of a violent hurricane that tests their survival skills and pits them against murderous looters.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1020L
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English
Description
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau, failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged by a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over 6,000 people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in...
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend.
Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people...
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