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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. Most of the Southwest has been evacuated. Luz and Ray are holdouts, squatting in a starlet's abandoned mansion and subsisting on rationed cola and whatever they can loot, scavenge, and improvise, their love somehow blooming in this arid place. But when they cross paths with a mysterious child, and the thirst for a better future begins."--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert and that...
3) Droughts
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
In recent years, climate research has intensified, and concern over the possibility that humans may be altering the global climate has stimulated funding for increased study of global warming and its consequences. With the 2002 drought in the United States having been especially severe, and droughts in other parts of the world causing conflicts over scarce resources, it becomes increasingly important for young people to have a quality resource that...
4) Droughts
Author
Publisher
Capstone High-Interest Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
5) Droughts
Publisher
World Book
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A discussion of a major type of natural disaster, including descriptions of some of the most destructive; explanations of these phenomena, what causes them, and where they occur; and information about how to prepare for and survive these forces of nature. Features include an activity, glossary, list of resources, and index"--Provided by publisher.
6) Droughts
Author
Publisher
Bellwether
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of droughts. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
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Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Formats
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Gooseberry Park volume 2
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Stumpy, Murray, Gwendolyn, and Kona recruit Herman the crow and 200 owls to help with their Master Plan to assist the animals of Gooseberry Park that are in trouble because of a months-long drought.
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
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Is it true that heat waves can make roads break apart? Yes! When it's extra hot, the materials that roads are made of will swell and start to crack. Really high temperatures can even melt the pavement.
Author
Series
Wild magic trilogy (Celine Kiernan) volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Third in a darkly enchanting trilogy after Begone the Raggedy Witches and The Little Grey Girl, The Promise Witch opens in a time of heat and thirst. The deposed old tyrant of a queen sent a cursed winter to bury Witches Borough in snow. Months later, the clouds have vanished, but an equally cursed drought has settled over the castle and its river, now bone-dry. Witches Borough is dying, and though Mup is the pathfinder, the stitcher of worlds, is...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Faced with a drought that endangers the continuity of their people, Masai elders are convinced that they have been cursed by the Red God -- the God of Vengeance. Following the death of the war chief, a group of adolescents must now cross over to adulthood, forced to quickly form a new generation of inexperienced but brave warriors. The young men must bring back the mane of a legendary lion, which appears at every critical period of Masai history to...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Humanity's impact on the natural world can have disastrous effects. The California Droughtshines a light on California's lengthy and devastating dry period. With abundant charts and diagrams and large-format photos, this title explores the science behind climate change, groundwater, and human water use patterns, and considers actions people and governments can take to try to improve the situation. Features include a flow chart showing the disaster's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
This fictional account of the closing months of the war against the Portuguese and the consolidation of the independent West African nation of Guinea-Bissau both reflects and critiques the revolutionary process. Mortu Nega, as its title implies, is a unique kind of elegy - not so much to the victims of the liberation struggle as to its survivors. Like the Zimbabwean film Flame (1996) and Gomes' own more disillusioned second feature Udju Azul di Yonta...
17) Drylongso
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a great wall of dust moves across their drought-stricken farm, a family's distress is relieved by a young man called Drylongso, who literally blows into their lives with the storm.
18) Skylark
Author
Series
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.
19) Droughts
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Demonstrates how readers can use their math skills to learn more about droughts, and highlights the role math plays in studying environmental phenomena.
20) Papi's gift
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Graciela's Papi has been working in the United States for so long that she has almost forgotten his face, so when the box he promised for her seventh birthday does not arrive, she is very upset and nearly loses hope that he--and the rain--will someday return.
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