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Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The waterholes of the Plain are drying up, and Wulfgar, leader of the Altaii people faces many other challenges. This is Robert Jordan's never-before-published first novel, which he wrote before his well-known Wheel of Time series.
2) Droughts
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
3rd edition.
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A discussion of droughts, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant droughts from history"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
109 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Stumpy, Murray, Gwendolyn, and Kona recruit Herman the crow and two hundred 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
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1934, as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend on the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, Annie Bell and her husband and children struggle against hardship as the wheat harvest dries out and people around them pack up to leave.
7) Rainstack!
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Publishing
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a terrible drought struck, the animals in the valley turned to a rabbit inventor who said he could invent a robot to make it rain.
Author
Series
End times volume 1
Publisher
Worthy Publishing
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
323 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As Pelican Island's history-making drought wears on, the water level on Bex and Davey's beloved marsh reveals the hand of a statue that has been underneath the water for who knows how long, and the siblings are determined to find out more.
10) Rainwater
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
11) Tiger queen
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the isolated desert kingdom of Achra, sixteen-year-old Princess Kateri flees the palace and trains with the rebel Desert Boys to overthrow the cruel captain of the guard in this retelling of Frank Stockton's short story, "The Lady, or the Tiger?"
Author
Series
Pendragon volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking advantage of a severe drought and the long-standing distrust between two tribes, the demonic Saint Dane attempts to take over Loor's home planet of Zadaa, opposed once again by the teenaged Pendragon and other Travelers.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a dry time, Mama leaves Little One alone while she climbs the highest mountain to ask the skies for rain, but she promises that her love will remain all around.
14) 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.
16) Dry
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
Author
Series
The Dakota volume 2
Publisher
Good Books
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family's farm in North Dakota. After moving halfway across the country and struggling to land on their feet, Hannah's family is finally feeling settled. The cattle business is doing well, and other Amish families have moved into the area. Feeling betrayed by Clay Jenkins and unimpressed with her own father, Hannah is hesitant to trust the men around her. Jerry Riehl, intrigued by her intelligence and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Language
English
Description
"The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Millie's family is hesitant to leave the farm their family has owned for generations, but after Black Sunday they leave Oklahoma for California where they find a new kind of stuggle.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Uncorrected Proof
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
96 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Photographs capture the horrific conditions of this national disaster, the struggles of the people who stayed to save their land, and the sorrows of those who were forced to move as a result of this catastrophe.