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Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
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.
2) Tornado
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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.
3) Thunderstorm
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
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
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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.
6) Death wind
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Allie fears she is pregnant, she leaves home with Razz, a skateboard champion. Returning home she is caught up in a tornado that threatens to destroy everything. She learsn to believe in herself and face her future.
Author
Series
I survived volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947.
8) Barn storm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tony and his twin sister Andie are four-wheeling in the woods near their family cabin, when they are caught in a violent thunderstorm--then the sky turns really dark, and they realize a monster tornado is on their tail, and suddenly they are not sure whether it is safer to keep running, or find some place to seek shelter.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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...
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Hank the Cowdog and his sidekick Drover find themselves confronting a huge storm in the middle of the night.
12) Twister trouble
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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.
13) Tornado alley
Author
Series
Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Although Wyatt is not happy that he has to entertain his visiting cousin, he soon has much bigger problems to worry about when two tornadoes strike the area.
15) A bird will soar
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home.
16) The storm
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Though confined to a wheelchair, Jonathan faces the terror of a tornado all by himself and saves the lives of the horses on the family farm.
17) A twisted tale
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After a tornado hits Bailey Tarbell's family farm all the animals are mixed up and it takes some creative thinking for Bailey to get things straightened out -- almost!
19) Chasing Helicity
Author
Series
Chasing Helicity volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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.