When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

Relates how the water in a park is used in different ways by the human and animal inhabitants of a neighborhood.

"On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool"--

Elephant was shouting and stomping. But could he stomp a hole deep enough to reach water for the thirsty animals? Maybe...maybe not. All the animals tried until tiny Gecko took a turn. He was small...but he was determined. And he was not going to give up!

"After a storm in her town, Vivi and her classmates volunteer to help clean up at the beach. When they arrive, the beach looks different from their last visit. Where did the sand dunes and tide pools go? Along with her classmates, Vivi learns about the forces of wind and water--and how those forces constantly change the world!"--

"Drip the raindrop is always nonstop! Come along with Drip as he goes on his continuous journey through the water cycle in this adorable rhyming adventure story. Readers will love following Drip and discovering how he changes as he goes from his home in a puddle on the ground to being evaporated into a cloud and continues through his transformations with his water droplet friends. Each step of Drip's journey is illustrated to help readers understand...

Artist RyMji Arai and poet Hiroshi Osada, the Japanese team behind critically acclaimed Every Color of Light, offer up another meditation on the natural world in this ode to water. A lyrical moment between parent and child in a boat on a river unfolds into an examination of the water that surrounds them, and the nature and life sustained by it: "It's only oxygen and hydrogen. Simple as could be, and yet nothing means more to life as we know it." Arai's...

"Mi nombre / es Agua / pero todos / me llaman Pequęa Agua". En esta hermosa y pǒtica oda a la fuerza vivificante del agua, el galardonado autor de libros infantiles Jorge Argueta describe en ingľs, espąol y ǹhuat el ciclo de vida del agua desde la perspectiva de una gota. Desde su nacimiento en lo profundo de la Madre Tierra, Little Water sube a la superficie, atravesando ra̕ces y rocas, luz y oscuridad. Finalmente, la diminuta gota de agua...

While playing in a pool on the side of the mountain, Isaac follows the water to a river, a waterfall, and the great ocean, in a book that celebrates the water cycle.