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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based was to him preposterous. It is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets nature's last uncontrollable force, based on Cline's own letters, telegrams, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors,...
Author
Series
I survived volume 21
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Description
"It's 1900, and Charlie feels lucky to live in Galveston, Texas. Sure, there are storms sometimes. But nobody worries about hurricanes. Even a famous weather expert says it's impossible for a strong hurricane to strike Galveston. Which is why few people worry on the morning of September 8, when a big storm starts to brew. but Charlie watches with growing horror as monster waves rise up from the sea, as the wind starts to scream. by night, much of...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 30
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas - the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter - a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When Duncan shows up as her new boss, though, he's nothing...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While salvaging and rebuilding in the aftermath of the Galveston flood of 1900, sixteen-year-old Seth proves himself in a way that his previous efforts never could, but he still must face his father man-to-man.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since seeing her parents die in a hurricane, and now, three years later, another storm threatens the home she shares with her grandfather on Galveston Island.
10) Fatal strike
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"There's a killer on the loose in Galveston, targeting law enforcement officials and using a fatal injection of snake venom to take them down. Authorities have reasons to believe the Veneno gang is behind the hits, and FBI Agents Leah Riesel and Jon Colbert team up to track down those responsible."--
11) On Juneteenth
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
""It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States." -Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Galveston, Texas, July 1932. Evie Grace Devlin come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is thwarted, Evie is swept into the world of dance marathons. All that she has been denied-- a family, a purpose, even love-- waits for her there in the place she dreads most: the spotlight. Finding work as an unregistered nurse looking after a troupe of marathon dancers, Evie learns that there truly...
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