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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
If your house were on fire, what one thing would you save? Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park explores different answers to this provocative question in linked poems that capture the diverse voices of a middle school class. Illustrated with black-and-white art.
Author
Series
Princess in Black volume 11
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Princess in Black, who knows how to handle all kinds of monsters, meets her match in an adorable kitten bent on annihilation and must figure out what her finicky feline friend wants.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A young girl remembers the day a storm destroyed her home. As she helped her family pick up the pieces, she found something unbroken"--Provided by publisher.
"Sometimes, in a child's life, the winds come. Sometimes, there are hard times. Acclaimed children's writer and storyteller Jan Andrews has always believed that these are the times children need stories the most. In her last-ever picture book, When the Wind Came, Jan has written a spare, beautiful...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the massive metal tank filled with sticky brown molasses that rises up over her crowded North End neighborhood explodes, young Carmen must fight for her life, as a tsunami of molasses rushes through the streets.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the electricity goes out, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends set out to investigate what is going on when they make the startling discovery that they are the only ones left in their neighborhood--and perhaps the only people left anywhere.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the power of human connection, while encouraging empathy and acts of generosity, this story follows two refugee brothers as they journey to a sheltering beach where they are welcomed by fellow survivors.
Author
Series
Disaster Squad volume 3
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Jackson family rushes to Minnesota where a blizzard is putting both people and animals in danger from freezing temperatures, and blinding snow.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Blinding snow and piercing wind whip at YOU. An ordinary day has turned into a life-or-death survival. How will you stay warm? Can you find shelter? And will you be able to get help before it's too late? It's time to make some difficult choices. With some smart decision making and a little luck, perhaps you'll be able to survive being lost in a snowstorm!"--
10) Monument 14
Author
Series
Monument 14 volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen kids of varying ages find themselves trapped in a chain superstore, while outside, a series of escalating disasters occur including a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After a natural disaster, a community comes together and slowly, joy, healing and music find their way back into the city, in this powerful message of resilience and the incredible strength of shared humanity even on the darkest days.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Littletown Library is destroyed by a tornado, it seems like book-loving Nia is the only one who cares; so she starts the "new free library" under the tree where she used to read, and writes out familiar stories and rhymes that are just a little bit wrong, and encourages the people who check them out to correct them--until soon the whole of Littletown is filled with people reading and writing books.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the Great Kanto Earthquake strikes Tokyo on September 1, 1923, twelve-year-old Fumiko must navigate the ensuing chaos and confusion in her fight for survival. Includes information about the Great Kanto Earthquake, a glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
14) The living
Author
Series
The living volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Yui, fleeing her violent husband, and Hiyori, a young orphan, are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga, a lost house, perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea. While helping to rebuild Kitsunezaki, the three adapt to their new lives and supernatural new home, slowly healing from their...
16) The Flicker
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"H.E. Edgmon's middle grade debut is a captivating post-apocalyptic story told through an Indigenous lens, perfect for fans of The Marrow Thieves. One year ago, a solar flare scorched the Earth and destroyed life as we know it. With their parents gone and their supplies running low, grieving step-sisters Millie and Rose leave home with their infant half-brother in search of Millie’s grandma, a Seminole elder - who Millie knows in her gut is still...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 30
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"--
18) Hurricane rescue
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Jackson family travels to Texas, where a hurricane is heading down the coast, and there are animals, wildlife, and people in danger -- but first they have to ride out the storm at a local shelter.
19) Swallow's dance
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Leira is starting her initiation as a priestess when her world is turned upside down. A violent earthquake leaves her home in pieces. And the goddess hasn't finished with the island yet. With her family, Leira flees across the sea to Crete, expecting sanctuary. But a volcanic eruption and tsunami throw the entire world into darkness. In the resulting chaos, Leira finds her noble-born privilege reduced to nothing; alone with her injured mother and...
Author
Series
Chronicles of G.A.I.A volume 1
Publisher
Genius Cat Books, an imprint of Kayppin Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What if the key to saving the future lay in a technology that makes love visible--even after death? Lexa Andromeda is just a normal twelve-year-old girl, until the day her dog dies. She's at a loss--until she discovers pranking. It's fun, it's easy, and it gives her something to do while she mourns. But when one prank goes too far, Lexa finds herself sent to Thistleton Academy--a prestigious boarding school for "Highly Creatives" like her. And...
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