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Language
English
Description
"Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, politics, economy, and values. The hotter it gets, the deeper and wider our fault lines will open. The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. Goodell's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Is it true that heat waves can make roads break apart? Yes! When it's extra hot, the materials that roads are made of will swell and start to crack. Really high temperatures can even melt the pavement.
3) Heat waves
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
6) Heat wave
Author
Series
Publisher
QEB Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses heat waves, where they are common, how they affect us, and how people cope with heat waves.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
"This informative book shows young readers how and why long periods of hot weather occur, where and when heat waves happen most often, and how extreme heat can be dangerous to people and animals. Readers will also learn about water shortages, droughts, and fire hazards, the equipment that meteorologists use to forecast heat waves, and techniques to stay safe during times of extreme heat"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
When a recently retired family patriarch clears out his bank account and disappears during a sweltering summer in 1976, his three children converge on their mother's home for the first time in years and track clues to an ancestral village in Ireland, where they uncover illuminating family secrets.
16) Act of God
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who's mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: it seems to be phosphorescent, it's a mushroom ... and it's sprouting from their wall. Upstairs, their landlady,...
17) Burning city
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Heller Highland, who is living with his grandparents while his parents are away, burns rubber across Manhattan delivering bad news by bicycle, and as a summer heat wave melts the city, he is struck by first love.
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents--mostly elderly and black--died over the course of one week. As Cooked links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand (Blue Vinyl, Everything's Cool), uses her signature serious-yet-quirky...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The 1896 New York heat wave that killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who arrived in New York City at the height of the catastrophe. As historian Edward P. Kohn shows, Bryan's hopes for the presidency began to flag amidst the abhorrent heat just as a bright young police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt was...