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Author
Series
I survived volume 12
Language
English
Description
A young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jeremy visits his twin cousins Jack and Flash in Oklahoma, he gets a big surprise: they're storm chasers! They live in a region called Tornado Alley, an area with more tornadoes than anywhere else in the world. Jack and Flash travel around Tornado Alley looking for tornadoes, and Jeremy is coming with them on their next mission. In Twister! Jeremy and his cousins encounter giant hailstones, awesome lightning, and funnel clouds, but will they...
3) Tornado
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
Author
Series
Sky fall series volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston, now seventeen, has no memory of that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.
7) Thunderstorm
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated account of a storm that moves through a Midwestern farming region over the course of several hours that is documented by a timeline and images of atmospheric changes and human response.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (approximately 105 minutes) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Dexter has always wanted to see a tornado. So when he gets the incredible opportunity to go storm chasing with the famous Dr. Norman Rays, he has to say yes! Dr. Rays is the host of Tornado Mysteries, the show that Dex and his older brother, Jeremy, watched every night until Jeremy joined the U.S. Navy SEALs and left Joplin.
10) Barn storm
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a tornado touches down in a pond on Farmer Brown's property, it sets off a chain of events among the barnyard animals that soon has every creature displaced, but not unhappy.
11) Torn away
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a tornado that has devastated her hometown of Elizabeth, Missouri, sixteen-year-old Jersey Cameron struggles to overcome her grief as she is sent to live with her only surviving relatives.
13) I am a tornado
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
An angry, destructive tornado picks up an empathetic cow, and when Cow politely asks to be put down, the two enter a conversation that has some unforeseen results.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
70 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
15) About average
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
16) The talent show
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a devastating tornado destroys much of Cape Bluff, Kansas, residents come together as a community to put on a talent show as a fund-raiser.
Author
Series
Tree Street kids volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his parents move the family to the suburbs, ten-year-old Jack yearns to return his grandparents' farm, but soon makes new friends--and a surprising discovery at the home of neighbor in need.
18) Twister trouble
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on their way to Weatherama Amusement Park to attend the Wild Weather Show, Ms. Frizzle and her class get a first-hand lesson in the forces of nature as they fly directly into the heart of a powerful tornado.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Stella loves books so much, her books begin to take over the farmhouse. "Why, Stell, you need your own library to hold those books," her pa tells her, so he and the neighbors build her one! She calls it "The Mermaid's Purse," since the midwife said Stella was born in one. Stella opens the Purse to her neighbors and travels around the countryside, sharing her books door-to-door. Not everyone gives them a chance at first, like grouchy Pig Ears...
20) Chasing Helicity
Author
Series
Chasing Helicity volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Helicity, not a victim of a horrific tornado but a survivor, connects with a local meteorologist and other stormchasers who support her plan to become one of them.--Provided by Publisher.
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