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1) Heat waves
Author
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A discussion of heat waves, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant heat waves from history.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando los Supergenios tienen una pregunta, ¡NO PARAN HASTA ENCONTRAR LA RESPUESTA! ¿Sabías que las montañas se forman cuando las placas tectónicas de la tierra se arrugan? ¿Conoces la razón por la que cada vez hay más incendios? ¿Te has preguntado alguna vez por qué si hay tsunamis en el mar no puede haberlos en un río? Alejo, Mar, Teo y Bruna son unos niños muy curiosos... Ahora se han empeñado en aprender cosas sobre los volcanes,...
3) Tornadoes
Author
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A discussion of tornadoes, describing their characteristics, formation, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant tornadoes and tornado outbreaks from history.
4) Floods
Author
Publisher
World Book
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A discussion of a major type of natural disaster, including descriptions of some of the most destructive; explanations of these phenomena, what causes them, and where they occur; and information about how to prepare for and survive these forces of nature. Features include an activity, glossary, list of resources, and index.
5) Ice storms
Author
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A discussion of ice storms, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant ice storms and other freezing events from history.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Something is stirring deep inside. A whisper hisses through its magma chamber. Gases gurgle. Steam spits out. Bubbles boil and pop. Suddenly, it's time to wake up! This lively book is the perfect pick for budding vulcanologists--or anyone who loves things that go...KABOOM!
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Adapting from her New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning adult nonfiction, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the Anthropocene...
10) Tides of fire
Author
Series
Sigma Force novel volume 17
Language
English
Description
To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project-an international research station off the coast of Australia-discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets in motion...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pop!
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Natural Disasters introduces readers to a variety of natural disasters and the impact they have on the world. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Yui, fleeing her violent husband, and Hiyori, a young orphan, are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga, a lost house, perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea. While helping to rebuild Kitsunezaki, the three adapt to their new lives and supernatural new home, slowly healing from their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When faced with nature's life and death circumstances, how would you respond? Survival stories recounts true stories of people overcoming adversity and surviving against the odds. Readers will learn which decisions survivors made that led to their rescues as well as tips and tricks on how to survive in similar situations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When faced with nature's life and death circumstances, how would you respond? Survival stories recounts true stories of people overcoming adversity and surviving against the odds. Readers will learn which decisions survivors made that led to their rescues as well as tips and tricks on how to survive in similar situations.
15) What to bring
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Malia is enjoying a summer day in her backyard when she glances at the sky -- and it looks very strange. A forest fire is sweeping into the area where she lives, and Malia soon learns that she and her family will have to evacuate their home. As they quickly get ready to leave, Malia's mother tells her to pack only what's important. At first, Malia struggles to decide what to take with her. She wants everything - and the "to bring" pile in her room...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When you can't save the world, how do you save yourself? Avery Byrne has secrets. She's queer; she's in love with her best friend, Cass; and she's suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression. But on the morning Avery plans to jump into the river near her college campus, the world discovers there are only nine days left to live: an asteroid is headed for Earth, and no one can stop it. Trying to spare her family and Cass additional pain, Avery does...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Stay calm and scout it out! Take inventory of what you have. Find shelter. Make a fire. Signal for help. Secure water and food. Follow Scout's trial through the mountains as she explains how to survive if you ever find yourself lost in the wilderness. A perfect travel companion for those with a knack for adventure!
Author
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two hundred years in the future, refugees from an environmental cataclysm have fled underground. They survive, scrounging out a living in a twisted maze of tunnels and canals. Scavengers, mistitfs, bandits, renegades and mutants are among the citizens of this subterranean realm. They are sewerfolk, their home, the bowels of a utopian city that was never completed. Life is hard enough, but an overzealous mining company, PERCH wants to get their claws...
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Standing in the way of Dazai and Sigma's escape from Meursault is none other than Chuuya Nakahara--now reduced to Dostoyevsky's vampiric puppet. If Dazai wants to come out of Gogol's deadly game alive, he'll have no choice but to say farewell to his onetime partner! Meanwhile, back at the airport, the rest of the Armed Detective Agency are pulling out every trick in the book to keep the Decay of the Angel's plan from bearing fruit. But faced with...
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