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1) Dead aim
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
"She witnesses death through the eye of her camera. Now a relentless killer is focused on her. A celebrated photojournalist, Alex Graham has seen it all--but her latest assignment has forced her across a dangerous line. When a dam breaks in Arapahoe Junction, Colorado, Alex is once more at the site doing more than just snapping pictures--she is in the mud with a shovel digging for survivors. But Alex finds more than she bargained for. In one terrible...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, below; told in the voices of six children and many others this is the story of the ordinary people of the town, their losses and their survival--and of the bitter aftermath when those for whom the dam was built denied all responsibility for the shoddy dam...
3) Nile chaos
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
520L
Physical Desc
120 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Jamal Jenkins and his pararescue team are sent to the highlands of the Nile where a burst dam has caused massive flooding and a humanitarian crisis, but contending local war lords make it difficult to get people the food and medicine they need--especially after one of the team's helicopters is shot down in the crocodile-infested Nile River.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
On May 31, 1889, as the waters rise in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Sarah Beth, her mother, and Vincent, a boy she likes, struggle to save what they can from the flooding but when the dam collapses the reader is invited to choose between three possible endings for Sarah Beth and her family.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On May 31, 1889, heavy rains and a dam failure sent flood waters sweeping into Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The 50-foot-high wall of water quickly demolished much of the town. Will you and your new husband be able to escape certain doom as you wait for your train to leave the station? Can you climb onto your house's roof for safety before the building completely fills with water? Will you join in the effort to save others who are floating by on the roofs...