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Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
A girl in Puerto Rico copes with the aftermath of a hurricane, including her family's temporary blue tarp roof and her brother's refusal to speak. Includes notes about the author's life in Puerto Rico and the yearly ritual of preparing for hurricanes.
"This heartfelt story of resilience follows two siblings as they work to recover and rebuild after Hurricane Maria destroys their home in Puerto Rico. Esta emotiva historia de resiliencia sigue a dos...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Casey dreads leaving her friends and boyfriend to spend a boring summer on a Caribbean island with her naturalist father, stepmother, and brothers, but she has some life-changing experiences that include learning to sail, helping with turtle conservation, surviving storms, and romance.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Various wetland creatures, from alligators to egrets, enjoy what begins as a calm and peaceful day in the bayou, then prepare for and endure a passing hurricane, and finally settle in for a peaceful night.
Author
Publisher
Black Sheep
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother Sam have come to Hawaii for their parents' Final Week. Global warming has devastated the planet, and the disintegrating society that remains is run by "corporates" who keep the population complacent through a constant diet of "pharma." The few Americans who stil live well also live long -- so long that older adults, like Nat's parents, blow out not by natural means but by buying death contracts. While...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Constable Teddy Creque, the sole police officer on the tiny, sun-soaked island of Anegada, is used to weathering storms. So when Hurricane Leatha hits the Caribbean with brutal force, his main concern is keeping the island’s two hundred residents safe. Teddy expects the power to go out. He expects the phone lines to go down. But he doesn’t expect the radioed message from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force headquarters, informing him of a dangerous...
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
90) Double eagle
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1973, Michael and Kyle's discovery of a rare Confederate coin near an old Civil War fort turns into a race against time as the boys try to find more coins before a hurricane hits Alabama's Gulf coast.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Bienvenido de nuevo a Camino Island, donde cualquier cosa puede suceder, incluso un asesinato en medio de un huracan, que podria resultar ser el crimen perfecto. . . Justo cuando Bay Books de Bruce Cable se prepara para el regreso del exitoso autor Mercer Mann, el huracan Leo se desvia de su curso previsto y se dirige directamente a la isla. El gobernador de Florida ordena una evacuacion obligatoria, y la mayoria de los residentes suben a bordo de...
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, Llc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It helps children explore the terms 'hurricane,' 'tornado,' 'tsunamis,' and 'greenhouse effect.' Divided into segments, this program is designed to reinforce and support a viewer's comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Kids will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts providing them with a model for how to appropriately use the words....
95) Will and Whit
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Wilhelmina "Will" Huxstep is a creative soul struggling to come to terms with a family tragedy. She crafts whimsical lamps, in part to deal with her fear of the dark. As she wraps up another summer in her mountain town, she longs for unplugged adventures with her fellow creative friends, Autumn, Noel, and Reese. Little does she know that she will get her wish in the form of an arts carnival and a blackout, courtesy of a hurricane named Whitney, which...
96) Empty
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When oil supplies run out and global warming leads to devastating storms, classmates Tom, Niki, Gwen, Hector, and Brock realize that the world as they know it is ending and lead the way to a more environmentally-friendly society.
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 3
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After two out-of-season hurricanes nearly destroy her island home, Corinne discovers that the god Huracan is angry and she, aided by friends and enemies alike, races to calm him.
98) Rebel Island
Author
Series
Tres Navarre mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Enjoying his honeymoon at a Gulf Coast island resort, Tres Navarre finds his peaceful sojourn turning deadly when a U.S. Marshal is found murdered, the island is wracked by a hurricane, and he discovers that a desperate fugitive killer is on the island.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hold on to your umbrella and stock up on marshmallows, Elmer is coming to town! Hurricane Elmer, that is. Judy and Stink and the whole Moody family hunker down with beans and batteries, ready to wait out the storm. Along with massive rain and strong winds, Elmer throws down ghosts, squirrels, and aliens. Just when things couldn't possibly get any freakier, flicker, flicker, gulp; the lights go O-U-T out. The Moodys are smack-dab in the middle of a...
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. FBI agent Aloisius Dupree is already well acquainted with Amaia's skills, her intuition, and her ability to understand evil. He now needs her help in hunting an elusive serial killer dubbed "the Composer." Dupree and Amaia follow his trail to New Orleans. It's the eve of the worst hurricane in the city's history. But a call from...
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