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1) Tornado
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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
Author
Series
Otis the tractor volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a tornado threatens the farm, Otis the tractor must try to save the animals, including the unfriendly bull.
3) Twister
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A tornado forces a young brother and sister to remain alone in a cellar while their mother goes to help an elderly neighbor
4) The storm
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Though confined to a wheelchair, Jonathan faces the terror of a tornado all by himself and saves the lives of the horses on the family farm
5) Thunderstorm
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated account of a storm that moves through a Midwestern farming region over the course of several hours that is documented by a timeline and images of atmospheric changes and human response.
Author
Series
Wiley and Grampa's creature features volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Grampa and Wiley sneak out of the house on a stormy Halloween night to attend Colonel Dracula's Monster Truck Spectacular, they run into trouble from which only Gramma and an F5 tornado can save them
8) Barn storm
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a tornado touches down in a pond on Farmer Brown's property, it sets off a chain of events among the barnyard animals that soon has every creature displaced, but not unhappy
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a hot summer day, the doors of Iron Heights Penitentiary open, and the Weather Wizard walks out a free man. After years in prison, the super-villain takes a deep breath and looks to the heavens. Suddenly, a giant thundercloud erupts on the horizon! Across town, the Flash streaks toward the storm and spots an F5 tornado threatening downtown Central City! The fastest man alive must save the city's residents and identify the cause of the deadly twister....
11) About average
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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. Includes factual information about tornadoes
14) Let the sky fall
Author
Series
Sky fall series volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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.
Author
Series
Tree Street kids volume 1
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When his parents move the family to the suburbs, ten-year-old Jack yearns to return his grandparents' farm, but soon makes new friends--and a surprising discovery at the home of neighbor in need
16) 14 Hollow Road
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Rising seventh-grader Maddie is consumed by her long-term crush on classmate Avery until a tornado destroys her home and her family must move in with his.
17) A new harvest
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Rodrigo has lost his family home due to a devastating tornado. He almost gives up. But then, he remembers his father's words of encouragement and finds the strength to build a new life. He slowly developed the confidence to build a new life and bring hope to lonesome, vulnerable and homeless people."
18) A bird will soar
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home
19) Twister trouble
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While on their way to Weatherama Amusement Park to attend the Wild Weather Show, Ms. Frizzle and her class get a first-hand lesson in the forces of nature as they fly directly into the heart of a powerful tornado. Includes factual information about tornadoes
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