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Author
Series
I survived volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Dexter has always wanted to see a tornado. So when he gets the incredible opportunity to go storm chasing with the famous Dr. Norman Gage, he has to say yes! Dr. Gage is the host of Tornado Mysteries, the show that Dex and his older brother, Jeremy, watched every night until Jeremy joined the U.S. Navy SEALs and left Joplin. Dex certainly knows how deadly tornadoes can be, but this one isn't heading towards Joplin, and wouldn't it...
2) Twister
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
Two children experience a tornado.
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 2
Language
English
Description
In a time of crisis, two women come together and set off down a road of hope in this novel in the Tending Roses series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours.
Twenty-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, doesn’t imagine any good could come out of the tornado that has ripped across the Missouri farmland where she makes her home. But...
Twenty-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, doesn’t imagine any good could come out of the tornado that has ripped across the Missouri farmland where she makes her home. But...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
After a devastating tornado that destroyed his neighborhood and much of Grand Island, Nebraska, Dan Hatch--who survived with his baby brother and best friend--fears for the safety of the rest of his family.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 23
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
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.
6) The rescuer
Author
Series
O'Malley volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Stephen O'Malley is a paramedic. He's been rescuing people all his life. But he's on the run now from the burden of his profession, from the grief of losing his sister, from a God he doesn't want to trust."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
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.
Author
Series
Heaven on earth volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Katie's fiancé died in a tragic accident, so did her hope of finding love. When a tornado destroys her small Amish settlement, including the schoolhouse, she doesn't know how she will provide for herself. Seth arrived in Hope Falls days before the storm; when he helps usher Katie and the children to safety, sparks fly. But Seth is only in town to help his brother, Amos, get back on his feet following the death of his wife. Sworn to protect...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while others run towards the vortex, testing how far a storm chaser will go for that once-in-a-lifetime shot.
10) The talent show
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
After a devastating tornado destroys much of Cape Bluff, Kansas, residents come together as a community to put on a talent show as a fund-raiser.
11) Tornado
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
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.
12) 13 minutes
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just thirteen minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives. Left to deal with the aftermath, four families must overcome their differences and find strength...
13) About average
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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.
15) The breathtaker
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
16) Amish redemption
Author
Language
English
Description
Joshua Bowman is ready to go home. After spending time in prison for a crime he did not commit, he is putting everything behind him and reconciling with his fractured family. When a devastating tornado throws him unexpectedly into the path of Mary Kaufman and her daughter, Hannah, he feels the first spark of life after months. But Mary's adoptive dad is the Englisch sheriff--and he would never trust her care to a man with Joshua's past. Plus the lovely...
17) Found
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A DESPERATE SEARCH: Driven by his wife's dying wish--to find their firstborn son--John Baxter sets about the search. His prayer? That Elizabeth's wish would be fulfilled before the upcoming Baxter family reunion. One strange turn follows another, but John confides in a new friend and continues to look for his son. When the answers finally come. they shake John to his core. Will he agree to walk away and keep the secret of a lifetime, or will he decide...
18) Stonados
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
When a tornado appears in the waters south of Boston, former storm chaser Joe Randall is intrigued by the unusual weather. But as twisters begin to strike across the Boston shoreline, Joe quickly realizes this is no ordinary storm front. As the storms threaten to move inland, the citizens of Boston find themselves trapped in a tempest turning deadlier by the minute. With the city under siege, Joe, his sister Maddy and his old storm chasing partner...
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
When a tornado strikes fifty years after another killed many teens in tiny Mercer, Illinois, some of the dead unite with misfits Brenna, Joshua, and Callie to seek peace.