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6) Hurricanes
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"Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of hurricanes. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
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What causes thunderstorms and lightning? Where and why do hurricanes form? How are blizzards more dangerous than other snowstorms? To answer these questions, you'll need to know about nature's most powerful weather events. Storms of all types and sizes occur around the globe. Each storm needs just the right combination of weather conditions to form and become dangerous-or even destructive. In this fact-packed book, discover how storms form, where...
10) Camino winds
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"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...
11) Hurricanes
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"An exploration of hurricanes, including how these huge sea storms develop, how their strength is measured, and how the most devastating hurricanes have impacted human history"--Provided by publisher.
13) Wonders of earth
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Visit a sunken ship miles beneath the waves. Watch a deadly volcano explode. Examine microscopic creatures living in a sandy beach and view the birthplace of stars through the Hubble Space Telescope. From the deep sea to natural disasters and from Earth's treasures to the oddities of science, this nature library is filled with full-color photos and lots of fascinating facts for young readers to explore.
14) Force of nature
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While trying to evacuate residents from an apartment complex during an intense hurricane, including a grizzled ex-cop and his daughter, a young police officer is thrust into further danger as a gang of thieves attempt to pull off a mysterious heist in the building.
15) Turbulence
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Stone Barrington and several friends are vacationing in Florida when an extreme weather event puts a damper on their trip. Even worse, the hurricane-force winds blow a powerful, noxious politician straight onto Stone's doorstep. Though they part ways before long, Stone soon learns that he hasn't seen the last of his new acquaintance. It turns out that this official has some shady associates who may have destructive plans afoot, and Stone needs an...
18) Crawl
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When a hurricane hits her hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.
20) Damaged
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When the Coast Guard finds a murdered body in the Gulf of Mexico while preparing for a Category 5 hurricane, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell places herself in the path of the deadly storm to track down the victim's identity and killer.
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