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Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a sequel to "The One and Only Ivan," former stray Bob, helped by friends Ivan and Ruby, searches for his lost sister on a journey that is dangerously complicated by an approaching hurricane.
Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson's injuries suggests...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Mack Petersen, manager of the hotel, has been working at the Beach Club for twelve summers. Only this summer is different. His boss, the owner of the hotel, Bill Elliott, shows up in the spring with a new set of demands. His girlfriend, Maribel, is pressing Mack to get married and Vance, the African American bellman who has hated Mack since the day Mack stole his job twelve years ago, threatens him in a deadly scene."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This book explains what causes hurricanes and tornadoes and describes the impact of five such disasters from the Tangail Tornado in Bangladesh in 1996 to Hurricane Katrina in the United States in 2005.
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 3
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A hilarious and scathing novel from the author of Squeeze Me about a crazed and determined man who has devoted his strange existence to saving southern Florida from con artists and carpetbaggers after a hurricane hits.
"Hysterically funny…. Hiaasen at his satirical best." —USA Today
When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, insurance fraudsters, amateur occultists,...
"Hysterically funny…. Hiaasen at his satirical best." —USA Today
When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, insurance fraudsters, amateur occultists,...
7) Huracan
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing Company, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Description
Strong winds send dirt and branches flying through the air. A huge tower of spinning air forms and destroys everything in its path. Houses are flattened and cars are tossed through the air. In this captivating introduction to tornadoes, early readers will be swept up in the dramatic text that describes the first signs of a tornado, its destructive power, and, most importantly, how to stay safe from a tornado s catastrophic winds. Each 24-page book...
Author
Series
Maggie O'Dell novels volume 8
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this thrilling installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Special Agent Maggie O’Dell puts herself in the path of a hurricane to investigate a mysterious murder.
While the Coast Guard is preparing Pensacola Beach for a severe hurricane, they find an oversized fishing cooler filled with body parts tightly wrapped in plastic floating offshore. Special Agent Maggie O’Dell is sent...
While the Coast Guard is preparing Pensacola Beach for a severe hurricane, they find an oversized fishing cooler filled with body parts tightly wrapped in plastic floating offshore. Special Agent Maggie O’Dell is sent...
9) Storm rescue
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 6
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a hurricane hits her town and all the veterinarians are busy on other emergencies, Sunita must face her fears in order to help Lucy, a stranded diabetic cat with a broken leg.
10) Force of nature
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While trying to evacuate residents from an apartment complex during an intense hurricane, including a grizzled ex-cop and his daughter, a young police officer is thrust into further danger as a gang of thieves attempt to pull off a mysterious heist in the building.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City
“A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review
September 8, 1900, began innocently in...
“A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review
September 8, 1900, began innocently in...
12) Storms
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks at all the big storms created by Mother Nature run amuk--from lightning and thunder to monsoons, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Features superlatives, jokes, and best of all, the incredible photographs available only from National Geographic.
13) Rough weather
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 36
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A high society wedding ends unhappily ever after in this mystery starring Boston PI Spenser—“the timeless hero of American detective fiction” (The New York Times Book Review).
Hired as a bodyguard at an exclusive wedding, Spenser witnesses an unexpected crime: the kidnapping of the young bride, which opens the door for murder, family secrets, and the reappearance of an old nemesis.
Hired as a bodyguard at an exclusive wedding, Spenser witnesses an unexpected crime: the kidnapping of the young bride, which opens the door for murder, family secrets, and the reappearance of an old nemesis.
14) Adrift
Publisher
STX
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
Author
Series
Frank Bascombe novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend.
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 3
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After two out-of-season hurricanes nearly destroy her island home, Corinne discovers that the god Huracan is angry and she, aided by friends and enemies alike, races to calm him.
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 5
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane causes the river near his Hawaiian home to flood, a boy named Calvin Coconut makes a daring rescue.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Gulf Coast hurricane makes landfall, Cort must unexpectedly put his all skills--and bravery--to the test"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ramona's got a bratty boss, a toddler teetering through toilet training, a critical mom who doesn't mind sharing, and oops, a cheating husband. That's how a Category Four hurricane bearing down on her life in Savannah becomes just another item on her to-do list. In the next forty-eight hours she'll add a neighborhood child and the class guinea pig named Clarence Thomas to her entourage as she struggles to evacuate town. Ignoring the persistent glow...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history"--
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