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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family.
5) Hurricane
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
John and his family prepare for and experience a hurricane on the East Coast.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.
7) The elevator
Author
Publisher
Steeple Hill Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
As a deadly hurricane approaches, three very different women are trapped in the elevator of a high-rise office building and are stunned to discover that they are linked to the same man.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mack Petersen, manager of the hotel, has been working at the Beach Club for twelve summers. Only this summer is different. His boss, the owner of the hotel, Bill Elliott, shows up in the spring with a new set of demands. His girlfriend, Maribel, is pressing Mack to get married and Vance, the African American bellman who has hated Mack since the day Mack stole his job twelve years ago, threatens him in a deadly scene."--Jacket.
Mack Petersen has...
9) Storm blown
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
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
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After two out-of-season hurricanes nearly destroy her island home, Corinne discovers that the god Huracan is angry and she, aided by friends and enemies alike, races to calm him.
11) Hurricane
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy describes the experiences of his family when a hurricane hits their home on the island of Puerto Rico. One moment the sun is shining on the slopes of El Yunque, the largest mountain in eastern Puerto Rico. The next, everything has changed. The sky has turned deep purple, and you feel as if the air has been sucked from your lungs. That can mean only one thing: A hurricane is coming!
13) The light pirate
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Good Morning, Midnight comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world. Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern...
14) Lost summer
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books : MTV Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Vacationing on an Outer Banks island with her mother and brother, aspiring singer Caitlin befriends a local misfit before getting swept up by a gang of prep school boys, witnesses a tragic murder, and dreads the imminent arrival of a hurricane.
15) Alicia and the hurricane: a story of Puerto Rico = Alicia y el huracán : un cuento de Puerto Rico
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
A young girl's love of the coquíes' nightly song helps her survive a destructive hurricane with her family. Includes author's note and a glossary of terms.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment.
Author
Language
English
Description
Hurricane Ophelia is bearing down on New York City, and in a matter of hours six people, along with their families and friends, will be caught up in the horrific flooding it unleashes. Ellen Wharton flew in from London to see her architect mother, but Grace Madison refuses to leave her apartment in the evacuation zone. British investment banker Charles Williams is looking for his daughters and ex-wife in SoHo. ER doctor Juliette Dubois fights to...
19) Hurricane child
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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.
20) Camino winds
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen - even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime ... Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
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