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1) Skylark
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
2) Droughts
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dry land. Thirsty plants. When rains don't come, droughts happen. Desert, forest, or prairies-droughts can happen anywhere. Discover how small shifts in rain amounts can cause big changes to the land. Learn about droughts, what causes them, and how living things adapt to survive"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"In 2017, seventy-year-old Signe sets off on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives. Signe is haunted by the love of her life and how her choices pulled them apart. In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, David and Lou unexpectedly cross paths...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Colorado River is the unique supply source of water for 30 million people. Global warming causes draughts and as a consequence, Colorado has lost a third of its flow in 8 years. The risk of shortage creates tensions on the sharing of what is called "blue gold".
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones in the darkest years of the Depression.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In the coming centuries the world's population has exploded. The earth's crowded with cities, animals are nearly all extinct, and drought's so widespread that water is rationed. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years, and no freedom, except for an elite few. It's a harsh world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan, and she dreams of a green vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest.
Author
Series
American diaries volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
141 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Texas in 1886, Ellen finds her desire to be a cattle rancher discouraged by family members who do not think it a proper choice for a girl, but she proves her worth when drought threatens the ranch.
Author
Series
End times novels (Jerry B. Jenkins) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a 17-year drought, multiple earthquakes, and uncontrollable wildfires, the state is desolate. The United States President declares the state uninhabitable and irreparable, directing California's 39 million citizens to relocate. From the air, California looks like a vast abandoned sand box, but to a few groups of people, it's their home. With less than 1% of the population remaining in California at their own risk, the holdouts encounter a clash...
11) Scrublands
Author
Series
Martin Scarsden novels volume 1
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Riversend, an isolated Australian community afflicted by an endless drought. A young priest kills five parishioners before being taken down himself. The story is that the priest was a pedophile whose imminent exposure was the catalyst for the shooting. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives to describe how the townspeople are coping with the anniversary. When the bodies of...
Author
Series
Chisholm Trail volume 2
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Pub. Date
1984.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
xiv, 377 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The earth lay dying. Crops dried up, and fertile soil dissolved into clouds of yellow. Ranchers did everything within their power, and federal forces were called in fruitlessly. Only Charlie Flagg, old-time Texas cattleman, saw it as a fight worth continuing--and refused to give up his battle against Nature.
13) Drought
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruby Prosser wishes to escape where she lives and have freedom.
14) Droughts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The earth -- and everything on it -- needs water. But lately, it's been unusually sunny, warm, and dry. The weather anchor announces that your area is experiencing a drought! Where do droughts happen? How do we know that we are in a drought? Why is rainfall important? Do droughts just affect people? Can scientists keep track of rainfall? Read and find out! This book is full of activities, like how to measure rainfall, how to visualize how much of...
15) The four winds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Faced with a drought that endangers the continuity of their people, Masai elders are convinced that they have been cursed by the Red God -- the God of Vengeance. Following the death of the war chief, a group of adolescents must now cross over to adulthood, forced to quickly form a new generation of inexperienced but brave warriors. The young men must bring back the mane of a legendary lion, which appears at every critical period of Masai history to...
17) Bravo Tavo!
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Tavo dreams of nothing but being a famous basketball star--and getting new shoes so that he can practice better--but his village in Mexico faces a serious drought and Tavo and his father must work to convince the other people that the old way of irrigation will save their crops.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 93 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Portuguese
Description
This fictional account of the closing months of the war against the Portuguese and the consolidation of the independent West African nation of Guinea-Bissau both reflects and critiques the revolutionary process. Mortu Nega, as its title implies, is a unique kind of elegy - not so much to the victims of the liberation struggle as to its survivors. Like the Zimbabwean film Flame (1996) and Gomes' own more disillusioned second feature Udju Azul di Yonta...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The hidden face of the beauty island: In the south, millions are forgotten by mankind. Droughts are increasing, soils become poorer, water is scarce, fishing resources are decreasing rapidly already disappearing dangerously.
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