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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Pelican Island's history-making drought wears on, the water level on Bex and Davey's beloved marsh reveals the hand of a statue that has been underneath the water for who knows how long, and the siblings are determined to find out more.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
4) Droughts
Author
Series
Publisher
Pogo Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.
6) Skylark
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award - winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"There has been little rainfall, and the land is dry. A drought has developed. Rivers and lakes dry up. Crops are ruined from lack of water. Learn ways to use less water and how to save the little water that you do have"--
10) Droughts
Author
Series
Publisher
Discover Roo, an imprint of Pop!
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text explore the science behind how droughts form, where they most commonly occur, and how people can best stay safe during one.--
11) Droughts
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Pendragon series volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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.
13) Pray for rain
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a journalist returns to the California farming community where she grew up, she discovers that drought has changed the community and made it a place ruled by gangs.
14) Droughts
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Dry land. Thirsty plants. When rains don't come, droughts happen. Desert, forest, or prairies-droughts can happen anywhere. Discover how small shifts in rain amounts can cause big changes to the land. Learn about droughts, what causes them, and how living things adapt to survive"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 7
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
With more questions than answers about Saint Dane, Bobby travels to the territory of Quillan and is forced to play games where only the winner survives.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
©2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her herd suffers during a drought in Tanzania, Grandma Elephant leads Little Calf and the other elephants in a search for the watering hole she remembers from her youth. Back matter includes further information about the phenomenon of a herd of elephants that survived a drought, as well as fascinating elephant facts. A picture book based on a true story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The waterholes of the Plain are drying up, and Wulfgar, leader of the Altaii people faces many other challenges. This is Robert Jordan's never-before-published first novel, which he wrote before his well-known Wheel of Time series.
20) Drought
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ruby's blood holds the secret to the Water that keeps her and her fellow Congregants alive and enriches Darwin West, who has enslaved them for two centuries, but when her romance with an Overseer, Ford, brings her freedom in the modern world, she faces a terrible choice.
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