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2) Promise
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart--one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager--fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful novel."--Publisher annotation.
A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress,...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 23
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
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.
4) Found
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
John Baxter attempts to fulfill his wife's dying wish to find their firstborn son, actor Dayne Matthews embarks on a personal search for truth, and theater director Katy Hart makes a decision that may completely transform her life.
5) The rescuer
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stephen O'Malley is a paramedic who has been rescuing people all his life. His friend Meghan is in trouble: Stolen jewels are turning up in interesting places, and she's in the middle of it. Stephen is about to run into a night he will never forget-a kidnapping, a tornado, and a race to rescue the woman he loves. Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
An angry, destructive tornado picks up an empathetic cow, and when Cow politely asks to be put down, the two enter a conversation that has some unforeseen results.
Author
Series
Heaven on earth volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie has lived through tragedy and heartache. But with the angel Elias by her side, the best years of her life are just ahead.
Language
English
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 accidently...
10) Let the sky fall
Author
Series
Sky fall volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston, now seventeen, has no memory of that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.
11) Tornado
Author
Series
Language
English
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) Good Hope Road
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jenilee Lane rescues her elderly neighbor, Eudora Gibson, from her celler after a tornado devastates the area. Together they piece together the fragments of their lives.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 25
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Hank the Cowdog and his sidekick Drover find themselves confronting a huge storm in the middle of the night.
15) Rekindled hearts
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A second chance at marriage? All Lexi Harmon wants is to be married--to her ex-husband. When a tornado traps them together, she prays they have a chance at life and love again. But embittered police officer Colt Ridgeway believes he can't give Lexi what she really wants--children and security. As they work side by side to rebuild High Plains, Lexi holds out hope that their marriage can be rebuilt, too, one piece of his heart at a time." -- Page [4]...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tony and his twin sister Andie are four-wheeling in the woods near their family cabin, when they are caught in a violent thunderstorm--then the sky turns really dark, and they realize a monster tornado is on their tail, and suddenly they are not sure whether it is safer to keep running, or find some place to seek shelter.
18) Storm shelter
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
520L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (33 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
After a tornado hits their neighborhood, Nathan, Ben, and Alison find a frightened, injured dog in a tree. They bring the dog to Ben's garage, intending to keep him safe until they can find the owner. When a strange man comes looking for a dog, the three friends become suspicious until the man explains he works for the humane society.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[2014].
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Friends To Roommates--To Lovers? Living with the Cupid of Blue Falls, Texas--her aunt Verona--Elissa Mason should be married by now. Or so her friends tease. But Elissa is wedded to the family nursery she's turned into a success. Following a devastating tornado, she has to rebuild and nothing's going to distract her. Not even her new feelings for neighbor-turned-roommate Pete Kayne. Deputy Sheriff Pete Kayne understands having a dream and doesn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1916, a twister devastates the land around Boynton, Oklahoma. Alafair Tucker's family and neighbors are not spared the ruin and grief spread by the storm, but no one will mourn Jubal Beldon, who made it his business to know the ugly secrets of everyone in town. As the undertaker does his grim duty for the victims, he finds that even in death Jubal isn't going to leave his neighbors in peace. He was already dead when the tornado carried...