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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
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
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jeremy visits his twin cousins Jack and Flash in Oklahoma, he gets a big surprise: they're storm chasers! They live in a region called Tornado Alley, an area with more tornadoes than anywhere else in the world. Jack and Flash travel around Tornado Alley looking for tornadoes, and Jeremy is coming with them on their next mission. In Twister! Jeremy and his cousins encounter giant hailstones, awesome lightning, and funnel clouds, but will they...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
Author
Series
Chasing Helicity volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Helicity, not a victim of a horrific tornado but a survivor, connects with a local meteorologist and other stormchasers who support her plan to become one of them.
8) Barn storm
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
When a tornado touches down in a pond on Farmer Brown's property, it sets off a chain of events among the barnyard animals that soon has every creature displaced, but not unhappy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tony and his twin sister Andie are four-wheeling in the woods near their family cabin, when they are caught in a violent thunderstorm--then the sky turns really dark, and they realize a monster tornado is on their tail, and suddenly they are not sure whether it is safer to keep running, or find some place to seek shelter.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Hank the Cowdog and his sidekick Drover find themselves confronting a huge storm in the middle of the night.
12) Tornado alley
Author
Series
Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although Wyatt is not happy that he has to entertain his visiting cousin, he soon has much bigger problems to worry about when two tornadoes strike the area.
13) The talent show
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
After a devastating tornado destroys much of Cape Bluff, Kansas, residents come together as a community to put on a talent show as a fund-raiser.
14) 14 Hollow Road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rising seventh-grader Maddie is consumed by her long-term crush on classmate Avery until a tornado destroys her home and her family must move in with his.
15) Mechanimals
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a tornado makes off with all his animals, a farmer finds a new way to fill up the farm.
16) Storm shelter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a tornado, Nathan, Ben, and Alison find a stray dog stranded in a tree. The three friends hope they'll be able to save the lonely dog, but is someone else out to trap the missing mutt?
17) A fine start
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Description
In this book Meg brings her prairie diary to an end describing her days in the Kansas Territory, a deadly twister, and the start of school.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Stella loves books so much, her books begin to take over the farmhouse. "Why, Stell, you need your own library to hold those books," her pa tells her, so he and the neighbors build her one! She calls it "The Mermaid's Purse," since the midwife said Stella was born in one. Stella opens the Purse to her neighbors and travels around the countryside, sharing her books door-to-door. Not everyone gives them a chance at first, like grouchy Pig Ears...
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