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1) Tornado
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
2) Tornadoes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Describes the location, nature, development, measurement, and destructive effects of tornadoes, as well as how to stay out of danger from them.
4) Tornadoes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the science behind tornadoes, including where and why tornadoes happen and how to stay safe when the sky starts to swirl."
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Harmony, Texas, twenty-year-old Reagan Truman has found her place and her family. But with her uncle taken ill and her friend Noah lost and disheartened with his life, Reagan is afraid of ending up alone again- and she's not the only one. Harmony seems to be full of people yearning to make a connection. Like funeral director Tyler Wright, who longs to take his relationship with his friend Kate to the next level, but doesn't know how. And Ronelle...
Author
Series
Heaven on Earth volume 3
Language
English
Description
Twenty-nine year old Katie Bender's dream of marriage ended when her fiance' died seven years ago. She's content as the Amish settlement's schoolteacher, that is, until a tornado destroys the schoolhouse and several of the area's farms. Supplies are low and the needs are great. Rebuilding the schoolhouse is a low priority. But Katie knows a lot about surviving tragedy and she simply won't accept that her days of teaching are over. Seth Stutzman is...
7) Tornadoes!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 970L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to tornadoes explains how they form, the scale used for classifying them, and what to do when a tornado approaches.
Author
Series
I survived volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Dexter has always wanted to see a tornado. So when he gets the incredible opportunity to go storm chasing with the famous Dr. Norman Gage, he has to say yes! Dr. Gage is the host of Tornado Mysteries, the show that Dex and his older brother, Jeremy, watched every night until Jeremy joined the U.S. Navy SEALs and left Joplin. Dex certainly knows how deadly tornadoes can be, but this one isn't heading towards Joplin, and wouldn't it...
Author
Language
English
Description
In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase, but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of tornadoes is coming to destroy them. The only thing that stands between the town and total destruction is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them....
10) Five days in May
Author
Language
English
Description
From Ninie Hammon, the sorceress of supernatural suspense comes Five Days in May, a tense, prophetic nightmare that will keep your eyes glued to the text through the very last page. Three members of the McIntosh family are setting appointments with death: Friday, May 10, 1963. That's the day an F5 tornado will rip across Oklahoma, obliterating everything in its path. Pastor Mac McIntosh lost his faith when his wife died - it's time to end the charade....
11) Tornadoes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of tornadoes. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
12) The rescuer
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Stephen O'Malley is a paramedic who has been rescuing people all his life. But he's running now-from the burden of his profession, from the grief of losing his sister, and from a God he doesn't want to trust. He's run into a mystery. Stolen jewels are turning up in unexpected places, and his friend Meghan is caught in the middle of the trouble. Stephen's about to run into a night he will never forget: a kidnapping, a tornado, and a race to rescue...
13) Tornadoes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Decribes tornadoes, how they form, their destructive capabilities, and safety precautions that people should know.
14) Found
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
John Baxter hires a private investigator to fulfill his wife's dying wish--that they find their firstborn son and make him part of the Baxter family. Meanwhile, top Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews undergoes a personal search for truth despite great loss, and Christian Kids Theater director Katy Hart makes a decision that could take her from the simple life she has grown to love.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about how to survive a tornado. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"-- Provided by publisher.
17) Tornadoes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Funnel cloud. Siren sounds. Take shelter! Tornadoes are a force of nature that can quickly spin across the land. Their powerful winds can cause lots of damage. But you can be prepared! Learn about tornadoes, pay attention to warnings, and stay safe" --
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
310L
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 890L
Language
English
Description
Survivors of tornadoes share stories of the catastrophic danger they faced. Also discover what causes these natural disasters, where they occur, and how to stay safe if one is heading your way.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Lily Marstow and Alyssa Cane think they have the perfect plan. After all, helping their single parents fall in love shouldn't be that hard. But Silas Marstow wants nothing to do with the woman who lost track of his child for precious minutes in the aftermath of the High Plains tornado. And Josie Cane is busy caring for her ailing grandmother and rebuilding her life. The girls' matchmaking pact is in jeopardy unless they can make their parents...
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