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Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The waterholes of the Plain are drying up, and Wulfgar, leader of the Altaii people faces many other challenges. This is Robert Jordan's never-before-published first novel, which he wrote before his well-known Wheel of Time series.
2) Droughts
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
3rd edition.
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A discussion of droughts, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant droughts from history"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As Pelican Island's history-making drought wears on, the water level on Bex and Davey's beloved marsh reveals the hand of a statue that has been underneath the water for who knows how long, and the siblings are determined to find out more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
5) Skylark
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Millie's family is hesitant to leave the farm their family has owned for generations, but after Black Sunday they leave Oklahoma for California where they find a new kind of stuggle.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Uncorrected Proof
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
96 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Photographs capture the horrific conditions of this national disaster, the struggles of the people who stayed to save their land, and the sorrows of those who were forced to move as a result of this catastrophe.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (4 hours) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Menacing black blizzards killed farmers' crops and livestock, threatened the lives of their children, and forced thousands of desperate families to pick up and move elsewhere. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
92 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.