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1) One by one
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Turn of the Key and In a Dark Dark Wood returns with another suspenseful thriller set on a snow-covered mountain"--
"When an off-site company retreat meant to promote mindfulness and collaboration goes utterly wrong when an avalanche hits, the corporate food chain becomes irrelevant and survival trumps togetherness. Come Monday morning, how many members short will the team be?" -- goodreads.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
3) Last light
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Birmingham, Alabama, has lost all power. Its streets are jammed with cars that won't start, its airport engulfed in flames from burning planes. All communications-cell phones, computers, even radios-are silent. Every home and business is dark. Is it a natural disaster . . . a terrorist attack . . . or something far worse? In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to a time before electricity, the Branning family faces a choice....
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Discovering the key to flight has been a dream come true for mankind. But when something goes wrong, this dream becomes a nightmare. Get the details of some of the most devastating plane crashes ever."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
What began as a fairytale honeymoon in 1857 for John and Laura Foster aboard the steamship SS Vandervere becomes a nightmare when a hurricane causes their ship to sink into the murky depths of the Atlantic. Laura finds herself with the other women and children aboard a sailing ship while John and a hundred other men drift on the open sea on anything they could grab as the Vandervere went down. Suspecting her John is gone but still daring to hope for...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while others run towards the vortex, testing how far a storm chaser will go for that once-in-a-lifetime shot.
8) Night light
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As the power outage continues, the Brannings struggle to bring their neighborhood together into a functioning community where everyone helps each other make their homes ready for winter, and fight the crime that is running rampant among them.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect–until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out, people begin to scream….
In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.… Sarah Sloane, the beautiful...
In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.… Sarah Sloane, the beautiful...
10) Adrift
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The summer brings big changes for the members of the Baby-sitters Club, with boyfriend troubles, feuds, hard decisions, and unexpected adventures, but Kristy, Claudia, Stacey, and Mary Anne come through knowing they will always be friends.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years.
13) Whiter than snow
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In a small mining town near Colorado's majestic Tenmile Range, as nine children walk home from school, a spring avalanche thunders down from Jubilee Mountain burying everything in its path. This novel of survival, redemption, and faith skillfully reveals the backstory of each family affected by this tragedy.
14) Promise
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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,...
15) Ashes, ashes
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and epidemics, sixteen-year-old Lucy survives alone until vicious hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band, but soon they learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap and infect people with plague.
16) The impossible
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage, and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives.
17) The dead
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
As a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers head to London. Ed, Jack, Bam and the other students at Rowhurst School learn more about the Disaster, and meet an adult who seems to be immune to the disease.
18) The Titanic
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Provides an account of the events of April 15, 1912, when the "Titanic" luxury liner sank in the Atlantic ocean after hitting an iceberg, claiming the lives of approximately 1,200 passengers, describes the boat's construction, launch, and first days at sea, and includes the words of survivors.
19) My way to you
Author
Series
Canyon Creek volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When a wildfire nearly destroys Parker Sinclair's family home, it's just one more disaster to add to her mountain of stress. For the past two years, she has shouldered the responsibility of raising her younger brother and sister after their parents' untimely deaths. Forced to leave college for a crappy job that barely pays the bills, Parker manages her family property, which consumes every aspect of her life. Now winter is coming and the forecast...
Author
Series
Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
On May 31, 1935, a storm system surged along the Republican River, bursting its banks in a matter of minutes with a roar that could be heard miles away. The greatest flood to hit the tri-state area of Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska, it left behind a landscape rearranged beyond recognition and claimed more than one hundred casualities. However, amid a