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21) 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.
22) I am a tornado
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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
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.
25) Vortex
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"What do you do when you and your family are in the middle of a road trip when a tornado hits? Then after surviving the tornado, when you must get your injured father and very scared younger brother to safety...before the next twister hits?"--
26) Promise: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart--one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager--fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful novel."--Publisher annotation. A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress,...
28) La tormenta
Author
Pub. Date
[2009], c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Allie, failing school and fearing she is pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, decides there is no way she can face her always fighting parents and decides to run away, but she gets a different perspective on her life and future when a tornado hits, destroying her home and injuring her mother.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Andrew Carnegie funded fifty-nine public libraries in Kansas in the early 20th century, but it was frontier women who organized waffle suppers, minstrel shows, and women's baseball games to buy books to fill them. Now, a century later, Angelina returns to her father's hometown of New Hope to complete her dissertation on the Carnegie libraries, just as Traci and Gayle arrive in town, Traci as an artist-in-residence at the renovated Carnegie Arts Center...
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 149
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
While Frank and Joe Hardy join a team of storm chasers in Oklahoma, they encounter a bizarre phenomenon--the aftermath of a fierce tornado that defies scientific explanation.
34) Torn away
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Driven by the dying wish of his wife, Elizabeth, to find their firstborn son, John Baxter sets about the search of a lifetime. His prayer? That her wish would be fulfilled before the upcoming Baxter family reunion. One strange turn follows another, but John confides in a new friend and continues to look for his son. When the answers finally come, they shake John to his core. Will he agree to walk away and keep the secret of a lifetime, or will he...
36) Twister
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Antonio slid down the rope. He held on for dear life. It got darker as the twister moved closer. It was loud. Like a giant freight train!
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned siblings Darlene, Jane, and Cora made media headlines. The relentless national attention and the tornado's aftermath caused great tension with their brother Tucker, who soon abandoned his sisters and disappeared. On the three-year anniversary of the tornado, a cosmetics factory outside...
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Sheriff Quinn Colson is faced with the release of an infamous murderer from prison. Jamey Dixon comes back to Jericho preaching redemption, and some believe him; but for the victim's family, the only thought is revenge. Another group who doesn't believe him - the men in prison from Dixon's last job, an armored car robbery. They're sure he's gone back to grab the hidden money, so they do the only thing they can: break out and head to Jericho themselves....
40) The breathtaker
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In the aftermath of a deadly twister, police chief Charlie Grover suspects that the members of the Pepper family died at the hands of a killer rather than the storm, and investigates with the assistance of weather expert Willa Bellman.