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Author
Series
I survived volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947.
2) The rescuer
Author
Language
English
Description
Stephen O'Malley is a paramedic. He's been rescuing people all his life. But he's on the run now--from the burden of his profession, from the grief of losing his sister, from a God he doesn't want to trust. Meghan may be blind, but she's not crazy. Someone is walking through her house, going through her things, so she turns to the one man she trusts to help her. Stolen jewels are turning up in unexpected places, and Meghan is caught in the middle...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dorothy Gale lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. She has a pet dog named Toto. When Miss Gulch takes Toto away, Toto escapes and runs back to Dorothy. Soon, she runs away from home, and runs into the fake psychic, Professor Marvel. He tells Dorothy that her Auntie Em is sick, so Dorothy and Toto run back home, but a tornado comes and takes Dorothy and Toto to Oz, a place somewhere over the rainbow. She lands in Munchkinland. Her house accidentally...
5) Twister
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two children experience a tornado.
6) Tornadoes!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 990L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using her acclaimed combination of clear text and detailed illustrations, Gail Gibbons explains how tornadoes form, the scale used for classifying them, where they most commonly appear, and what to do in case one should be near you.
Author
Series
Otis the tractor volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a tornado threatens his farm, Otis the tractor must try to save the animals, including an unfriendly bull.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hank the Cowdog and his sidekick Drover find themselves confronting a huge storm in the middle of the night.
10) About average
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
12) Tornado
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
49 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
13) Found
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Firstborn volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Driven by his wife?s dying wish to find their firstborn son, John Baxter sets about the search. His prayer? That Elizabeth?s wish would be fulfilled before the upcoming Baxter family reunion. One strange turn follows another, but when the answers finally come, they shake John to his core. Will he agree to walk away and keep the secret of a lifetime, or will he let the truth come to light, no matter the cost?
14) Tornadoes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With winds that can reach speeds of three hundred miles an hour and funnel clouds that can measure a mile in diameter, tornadoes leave enormous damage in their wake. Now Seymour Simon examines these twisting columns of air and destruction. Simon explains how tornadoes are formed, why and when they are most likely to occur, how scientists classify and track them -- and what to do if one touches down. Full-color photographs show this powerful phenomenon...
15) Tornado
Author
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this book, young readers will learn about tornadoes"--Provided by publisher.
17) The breathtaker
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
18) Tornado terror
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
157 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 was the deadliest tornado strike in American history, tearing through three states and killing 700 people. Almost a century later, the Joplin Tornado was a mile-wide monster that destroyed heart of a vibrant city. The true stories of these two events plus fascinating facts, profiles of tornado scientists and storm chasers.--
19) Stormchasers
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (67 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join storm-chasing meteorologists who track extreme weather conditions in order to understand how they form. Take a ride inside hurricanes, monsoons, and tornadoes.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A scientist and a filmmaker explore the intricate and potentially deadly forces of a tornado by driving into the heart of an actual storm in a specially-designed vehicle made of 8,000 pounds of steel plating and bulletproof glass.
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