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2) Tornadoes!
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Using her acclaimed combination of clear text and detailed illustrations, Gail Gibbons explains how tornadoes form, the scale used for classifying them, where they most commonly appear, and what to do in case one should be near you.
3) Tornadoes
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Discusses what happens during a tornado, the destruction and hazards they can cause, and offers advice on how to stay safe during one.
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Is this what a crush felt like? A constant stomachache, a bubbly feeling in your fingertips? When a tornado rips through town, twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed and her family of six is displaced. Ivy feels invisible and ignored in the aftermath of the storm - and what's worse, her notebook filled with secret drawings of girls holding hands has gone missing. Mysteriously, Ivy's drawings begin to reappear in her locker with notes from...
6) Tornadoes
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Take cover-a tornado is coming! This book teaches young readers storm safety tips as it explains how twisters form, behave, and are tracked and predicted.
8) Torn away
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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.
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Plain-Jane Jordan Johnston falls about in the middle of short and tall, plump or slim, blonde or brunette, neither gifted in school nor a flunk. She is average, and she hates it. Everyone else is better than she, but by the end of the year she has made a promise to herself--no matter the cost, she will find her talent.
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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.
17) Good Hope Road
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Twenty-one-year-old Jenilee Lane and her elderly neighbor, Eudora Gibson, learn how to face the future and the past, respectively, when Jenilee rescues Eudora after a tornado and then embarks on another rescue: collecting photos, letters, and other fragments scattered from her neighbors' houses during the storm.
18) Storm shelter
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Nathan, Ben, and Alison work together to save an injured dog that is trapped in a tree after a tornado, but when they realize someone else is hoping to trap the dog, they must rely on one another to save it in time.
19) Mechanimals
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After a tornado leaves him with heaps of scrap metal and no animals on the farm, the determined farmer puts in motion a plan to create his own animals using the materials he has available and, despite his skeptical neighbors, completes his plan with great success.
20) The rescuer
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Stephen O'Malley is a paramedic who has been rescuing people all his life. His friend Meghan is in trouble: Stolen jewels are turning up in interesting places, and she's in the middle of it. Stephen is about to run into a night he will never forget—a kidnapping, a tornado, and a race to rescue the woman he loves.
Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become...
Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become...