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Author
Series
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the story of a boy who survives the deadliest disaster in American history--the hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, killing eight thousand people--and heads back into the treacherous waters to help save his neighbors.
2) Two degrees
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When three children endure separate climate change disasters--a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida--they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the world.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When his dad disappears, thirteen-year-old Cort is caught in a battle against a Gulf Coast hurricane. Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore lower Alabama and has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Category 3 storm makes landfall, Cort must unexpectedly put all his skills - and bravery - to the test. One catastrophe seems to lead to another, leaving Cort and two neighbor girls to face the storm as best...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 30
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history" -- Provided by publisher.
6) Storm blown
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Alejandro worries about his great-uncle while helping guests at a resort, and in New Orleans, Emily worries about her sick brother, as a major hurricane rages, changing both their lives forever.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.
8) The surge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After barely surviving a terrifying hurricane, Chase and his friends Nicole and Rashawn have made it to the safety of Nicole's family farm, which is also the winter home of the Rossi Brothers Circus, where flood waters are rising and dangerous circus animals are on the loose.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a hurricane threatens to harm the underwater homes of the merpeople, it is up to India Finch, a part-human/part-mermaid teenager, to warn her ocean friends. The mer decide to seek calmer waters, and as they travel, they are attacked by a giant squid, with India at the center of harm's way. Gravely injured, India depends on the merfolks' willingness to risk their own safety to get her ashore where her injuries can be treated. Will the prejudice...
Author
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Dinah and her two siblings are trapped by a terrible storm, cousin Gage keeps up their spirits with an unlikely fantasy. A tale of a newly hatched, orphaned skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibberee tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble. Dinah is skeptical at first, but stories told by candlelight on stormy nights have a way of becoming real, and Dinah begins to believe.
11) Hurricane child
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
12) Hurricane
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
44 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
After a devastating hurricane, a young boy asks for help rebuilding the neighborhood dock, his favorite place in the world, but finds that his neighbors need help first.
13) Empty
Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
When, just ten years in the future, oil supplies run out and global warming leads to devastating storms, senior high school classmates Tom, Niki, Gwen, Hector, and Brock realize that the world as they know it is ending and lead the way to a more environmentally-friendly society.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Thousands of birds are migrating from the Arctic to the Caribbean when a hurricane rips a young whimbrel, Numenia, from her sisters, forcing her to struggle on alone. Includes note about the true story that inspired the book.
15) Monster club
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Middle-schooler Eric, who lives near Coney Island, discovers a magic ink that brings his monster drawings to life.
16) Lions & liars
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp where he and his terrifying troop mates have just started forging a friendship when they learn a Category 5 hurricane is headed their way.
17) Hurricane Joe
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 11
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
169 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe Hardy investigate a string of false hurricane warnings--and subsequent burglaries--that are terrorizing the citizens of Bayport.
19) Meet the sky
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author McCall Hoyle comes Meet the Sky, the story of Sophie, whose family tragedies have made her crave stability, control, and safety. But when a hurricane threatens her home on the Outer Banks, Sophie winds up trapped on the island with Finn Sanders, the one person who could show her how to love and live life again.
20) Acadia discovery
Author
Series
Campground kids volume 8
Publisher
Bakken Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
173 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Campground Kids get their feet wet on this oceanic adventure as they explore Acadia National Park. After their whale-watching expedition on the Unsinkable II, the family picks up Noah, Ethan's smug cousin, as they head to Duck Harbor Campground. The next day, the group returns from an early morning hike to find the campground completely deserted! Noah uses his trusty amateur radio to signal for help only to find that a hurricane is bearing down...