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Weather
Allaby, Michael, Droughts (Weather Science), Facts on File, 2011. (Grades 6-8)
Technical, comprehensive entry in the Dangerous Weather series explores the mystery of rain and what happens when it does not come. Allaby first defines drought before discussing the reasons for and results of long periods without rain.
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Berger, Carin, The Little Yellow Leaf, Greenwillow, 2008. (Grades
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Bouchard, David, If You're Not
From the Prairie, Raincoast, 2002. (Grades K-3)
This poetic tribute invites
readers to experience the blazing light, cutting wind, endless
sky, piercing cold, and extraordinary beauty of the prairie. It's
a land of extremes, as the lyrical text and illustrations make
clear, that inspires extreme devotion from its hardy inhabitants.
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Branley, Franklin M., Sunshine Makes the Seasons, Collins, 2005.
(Grades 1-4)
An excellent resource for explaining the concept
of seasons, using a pencil and orange and focusing on the sun-earth
relationship.
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Byars, Betsy, and Doron Ben-Ami, Tornado,
HarperCollins, 2004. (Grades 3-5)
When a tornado is sighted,
a boy's family rushes to the storm cellar. Anxious about the father,
who's still in the cornfield, they listen to the storm overhead
and to the stories related by their farmhand, Pete, about Tornado,
the dog he knew and loved as a boy.
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Gifford, Glive, Flooding and Drought (Looking at Landscapes), Evan Brothers, 2005. (Young Adult)
Detailed, informative and lively discussion of flooding and drought, causes and effects, patterns and processes. Includes photos and diagrams.
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Lichtenheld, Tom, Cloudette, Holt, 2011. (Grades PreK-2)
Cloudette is just a small cloud, but she wants to make a brook babble, a waterfall fall and give some kids a day off from school. Her tale raises questions relevant to little children: "Is there anything good about being small?" "Will I ever be as good as the big kids?" "What do clouds do, anyway?"
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Locker, Thomas, Water Dance, Sandpiper, 2002. (Grades 1-6)
"Some people say that I am one thing. Others say that I am many. Ever since the world began I have been moving in a circle...I am the rain." The book features a free-verse narrative illustrated by landscape and seascape paintings that show water in various forms.
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McKneally, Ranida, and Grace Lin, Our Seasons,
Charlesbridge, 2007. (Grades K-5)
Haiku poetry accompanies season-related questions
and answers about weather, the natural world and the human body.
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Mead, Alice, Year of No Rain, Dell, 2005. (Grades 4-8)
In the spring of 1999, hunger and thirst are constant companions to 11-year-old Stephen and his family and friends in southern Sudan as they struggle to keep their fields of sorghum and maize alive. When bombs explode in their small village, Stephen's mother tells him and his friends to quickly pack, and they run and hide, leaving with few possessions.
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Paulsen, Gary, Winter Room, Scholastic, 2009. (Grades 4-7)
The winter room is where
Eldon, his brother Wayne, old Uncle David, and the rest of the
family gather on icy cold nights, sitting in front of the stove.
There the boys listen eagerly to all of Uncle David's tales
of superheroes. Then one night Uncle David tells the story, "The
Woodcutter," and what happens next is terrible - then wonderful.
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Sidman, Joyce, and
Beckie Prange, Song of the Waterboatman and Other Pond Poems,
Houghton-Mifflin, 2005. (Grades PreK-3)
Science facts
combine with vivid poems about pond life through the seasons.
Focusing on one pond creature or plant per spread, Sidman employs
many poetic forms.
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