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Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
At 45, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne's idyllic getaway will be ruined - until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyde Street Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When her father's plane mysteriously disappeared in the middle of an electrical storm, Alicia Monroe became obsessed with lightning. Now a news photographer in Miami, Alicia covers local stories by day and chases storms at night. In a flash of lightning, she sees what appears to be a murder, but when she gets to the scene, there is no body, only a military tag belonging to Liliana Valdez, a woman who has been missing for over a year. While the police...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long enough to testify, she'll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyde Street Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Katherine Barrett turns to her former high school sweetheart to fly her to a remote, dangerous part of Mexico seeking her brother who is fleeing from a killer. Their adventure will lead them into the heart of a lightning storm that will change the way they look at their families, the world, and each other.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A raccoon forages for food at night and at dawn returns to its home in a strong, old tree, which safely shelters the raccoon through wild winds and ferocious rain so that it can go out searching for food again.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the Cornish coastal village of Mount Polbearne, the Christmas season has arrived. But holiday bliss soon gives way to panic when a storm cuts the village off from the mainland. Now it will take all of the villagers to work together in order to ensure everyone has a happy holiday.
10) Into the storm
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.
11) Out of the dust
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of "The Last House Guest"-a Reese's Book Club pick-comes a riveting new novel of psychological suspense about a young woman plagued by night terrors after a childhood trauma who wakes one evening to find a corpse at her feet"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
15) Williwaw!
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In their father's absence, thirteen-year-old September and her younger brother Ivan disobey his orders by taking the boat out on their Alaska bay, where they are caught in a terrifying storm called a williwaw.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
Author
Series
Phoebe and her unicorn (Comic strip) volume 6
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, a division of Andrews McMeel Universal
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a massive storm wreaks havoc on their town's electricity, Phoebe and Marigold set out to discover the magical cause, teaming up with Max and frenemy Dakota to save their town from the magic storm.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve, while restoring an old house, answer the door to a man claiming to have lived there years before, which sets in motion a chain of uncanny and inexplicable events leading to Charlie's disappearance and Eve's descent into insanity.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin/Mariner
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts
...Author
Series
Sunrise Cove volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Beloved New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis begins a new series--Sunrise Cove--set near beautiful Lake Tahoe, with a heartwarming story of found family and love. During the snowstorm of the century Levi Cutler is stranded on a ski lift with a beautiful stranger named Jane. After strong winds hurl the gondola in front of them into the ground, Levi calls his parents to prepare them for the worst...but can't bring himself to say goodbye. Instead,...