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Like the deadly tornadoes it documents, this potent combination of high adventure and hard science is terrifyingly timely in our era of global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel, now America's most watched programming, has in recent years shown us a relentless series of hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and eruptions killing thousands, turning millions into refugees, and leaving whole cities in shocked, shattered ruins.
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44) Tornadoes
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Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
45) Batter up Wombat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An Australian wombat joins the Champs baseball team, and even though he is disastrously ignorant about the game, his innate talents save everyone when a tornado suddenly strikes.
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
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English
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"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...
48) Tornado
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530L
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English
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"In this book, young readers will learn about tornadoes"--Provided by publisher.
49) Tornadoes
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
990L
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English
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"Learn all about tornadoes, from what causes them to what effects they have on humans."--
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660L
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English
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"Readers will discover the science behind tornadoes and learn how first responders aid in the coping, healing, and rebuilding of the affected communities post-disaster. Focused on 21st Century content, the SEL- (social-emotional learning) and inquiry-based sidebars encourage young readers to think, create, guess, and ask questions. Includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, bibliography, and sidebars"--
52) Storm chasers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1070L
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English
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Dramatic photos and text describe how scientists predict, measure, and chase tornadoes and hurricanes.
53) Tornadoes!
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Using detailed illustrations and clear wording, youngsters learn how tornadoes form, the scale used for classifying them, and what to do in case one should be near.
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English
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"Andrew Carnegie funded fifty-nine public libraries in Kansas in the early 20th century, but it was frontier women who organized waffle suppers, minstrel shows, and women's baseball games to buy books to fill them. Now, a century later, Angelina returns to her father's hometown of New Hope to complete her dissertation on the Carnegie libraries, just as Traci and Gayle arrive in town, Traci as an artist-in-residence at the renovated Carnegie Arts Center...
55) Sharknado
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English
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Sharknado: When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace, and nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air. -- Sharknado 2: When a Category 7 hurricane pummels New York, the surging flood waters bring thousands of sharks. To make matters worse, tornadoes soon dot the horizon. As Sharknadoes tear through the city, no vehicle, building, or national monument is safe. -- Sharknado 3: When a mass...
56) Promise
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English
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In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart-one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager-fight for their families' survival.
57) Amish redemption
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"Joshua Bowman is ready to go home. After spending time in prison for a crime he didn't commit, he's putting everything behind him and reconciling with his fractured family. When a devastating tornado throws him unexpectedly into the path of Mary Kaufman and her daughter, Hannah, he feels the first spark of life after months. But Mary's adoptive dad is the Englisch sheriff-and he'd never trust her care to a man with Joshua's past. Plus the lovely...
58) Let the sky fall
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Sky fall series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston, now seventeen, has no memory of that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.
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"The inside account of Oklahoma's deadliest tornado, by a local writer who became a national correspondent Oklahomans have long been known for their fatalism and grit, but even old-timers are troubled by the twisters that are devastating the state with increasing frequency. On May 20, 2013, the worst tornado on record landed a direct hit on the small town of Moore, destroying two schools while the children cowered inside. Oklahoma native Holly Bailey...
60) Vortex
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
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"What do you do when you and your family are in the middle of a road trip when a tornado hits? Then after surviving the tornado, when you must get your injured father and very scared younger brother to safety...before the next twister hits?"--
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