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Author
Series
Skink novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Newlywed Bonnie Lamb has lost her husband in the midst of the rubble left by a hurricane in southern Florida and must deal with some very strange characters in her attempt to find him.
2) Second wind
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
BBC meteorologist Perry Stuart finds his life in danger after the plane he is riding in on an adventure into the eye of a Class V hurricane is destroyed, stranding him on Trox Island where he discovers a notebook that contains very sensitive information.
3) Hurricane
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
With lashing rain and brutal winds bearing down on them, residents of southwest Florida prepare for evacuation. But Julie Minton cannot leave. Her fourteen-year-old daughter, Randi, left home earlier that morning to go out on a Jet Ski with Thad Brockman, a boy Julie barely knows. Now Randi and Thad are missing -- and the hurricane that hours ago was just another routine warning has turned toward shore. With local law enforcement absorbed in emergency...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[48] p. : col. ill. ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A special field trip on the magic school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to experience a hurricane firsthand, from air, sea, and land.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 36
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Parker once again proves he is a force of nature in this mystery where a hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible--the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
73 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the United States alone, ten million Americans live in hurricane danger zones. But how do hurricanes work? And how can we predict their strength? A daring team of NASA scientists want to find out--and are using a repurposed Global Hawk drone to conduct hurricane science like never before."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 46
Language
English
Description
Stone Barrington and several friends are vacationing in Florida when an extreme weather event puts a damper on their trip. Even worse, the hurricane-force winds blow a powerful, noxious politician straight onto Stone's doorstep. Though they part ways before long, Stone soon learns that he hasn't seen the last of his new acquaintance. It turns out that this official has some shady associates who may have destructive plans afoot, and Stone needs an...
9) Hurricanes!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Introduces readers to hurricanes, discussing hurricane formation, classification, weather preparedness, and the ever-evolving technology for predicting the behavior of these powerful storms.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Isaac Cline, a weather scientist in Galveston, Texas in 1900, discussing his belief and assertion that nothing in the way of weather could destroy the coastal city; and looks at how Cline dealt with the aftermath of the hurricane that hit Galveston on September 8, claiming the lives of thousands of people.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hurricane Ophelia is bearing down on New York City. And in a matter of hours, six people, along with their families, friends, and millions of other New Yorkers living around them, will be caught up in the horrific flooding it unleashes. Ellen Wharton has flown into New York from London, regardless of the weather and her husband's worry. The successful interior designer is intent on seeing her lively architect mother and has an important personal appointment...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the 2017 superstorms that devastated parts of the United States and the Caribbean and the science that determines how well people are equipped to deal with hurricanes in the future.
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in the Lower Ninth Ward of 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 severe a storm as forecasters 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...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
It’s Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias—the garden club in little Darling, Alabama—are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn’t easy, though, since there’s a firebug on the loose in Darling. He—or she!—strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What’s more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling’s direction,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a hurricane threatens the coasts of Florida and South Carolina, an eclectic group of evacuees flees for the farm of their friends Grace and Charles Phillips in North Carolina. They bring with them only the few treasured possessions they can fit in their vehicles. Strangers to all but the Phillips, they must ride out the storm together. During the course of one of the most challenging weeks of their lives, relationships are put to the test as...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC’s Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history — a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today’s new age of extreme weather. On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, two-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and fifteen-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the booming port city on Texas’s Gulf Coast....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1%, but she can't seem to find her own...until...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a storm is raging, David and George are glad to be inside the house, snug and safe. In this spectacular picture book by Caldecott Honor recipient David Wisener, a fallen tree becomes the threshold to the limitless voyage of the imagination, which David and George share as only true friends—and brothers—can. This ebook includes audio narration.
19) Key Largo
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco, but postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
20) Velorio
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Camila is haunted by the death of her sister, Marisol, who was caught by a mudslide during the huracan. Unable to part with Marisol, Camila carries her through town, past the churchyard, and, eventually, to the supposed utopia of Memoria. Urayoan,the idealistic,yet troubled cult leader of Memoria, has a vision for this new society, one that in his eyes is peaceful and democratic. The paradise he preaches lures in the young, including Bayfish, a boy...
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