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Drylongso
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Virginia Hamilton |
As a great wall of dust moves across their drought-stricken farm, a family's distress is relieved by a young man called Drylongso, who literally blows into their lives with the storm. |
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Droughts
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Anne Wendorff |
"Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of droughts. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by pu… |
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Water scarcity in the Mediterranean
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Damià Barceló,Sergi Sabater |
"Water scarcity affects hydrologic resources, systems connectivity, biodiversity, water quality, and river ecosystem functioning. It has direct impacts on economic sectors that use and depend on wate… |
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Meet me at the moon
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Gianna Marino |
During a dry time, Mama leaves Little One alone while she climbs the highest mountain to ask the skies for rain, but she promises that her love will remain all around. |
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The Storyteller
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Evan Turk |
Long, long ago, like a pearl around a grain of sand, the Kingdom of Morocco formed at the edge of the great, dry Sahara. It had fountains of cool, refreshing water to quench the thirst of the desert,… |
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Drought
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Graham Masterton |
A nationwide drought causes the taps to run dry and ex-marine and social worker Martin Makepeace must take drastic action to protect his family, while corrupt politicians try to use the drought to th… |
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Drought
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Gail Stewart |
Describes droughts around the world, their damaging effects, how people prepare for them, and ways to fight the effects of this type of natural disaster. |
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Blue future
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Maude Barlow |
"In her bestselling books Blue Gold and Blue Covenant, world-renowned water activist Maude Barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international,… |
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The global water crisis
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David E. Newton |
"How is water scarcity becoming a serious problem worldwide--including in the United States? This book provides a broad overview of water, sanitation, and hygiene problems faced by both developing an… |
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The dry
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Jane Harper |
"Federal Agent Aaron Falk hasn't been back to the place where he grew up in twenty years. Not since he and his father were run out of town. Even when Falk gets word that his childhood best friend, Lu… |
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Fireman Sam
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No Author |
When Station Officer Steele takes Norman and Mandy pot-holing in big Cave, it looks like it's going to be a quiet day for Fireman Sam. But what will happen when Norman wanders off in search of Welsh … |
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Droughts of the past and the future
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Karen J. Donnelly |
Discusses the importance of water on earth, what a drought is, conditions that can cause droughts, and the possibility of droughts in the future. |
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The rain tree
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Will Cook |
As his cattle die from drought, rancher Jim Martin hears of a tree which can bring water from the ground. He buys a shoot and his ranch becomes the most prosperous in the area. But riches corrupt and… |
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Skylark
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Patricia MacLachlan |
*My mother, Sarah,
doesn't love the prairie.
She tries, but she can't help
remembering what she knew first.*
Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turne… |
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Aio the rainmaker
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Fiona French |
With ritual dance and song the Rainmaker calls on the Ancestors to send rain at the end of the dry season in their hot country. |
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Angels in the dust
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Margot Theis Raven |
Great Grandma Annie reminisces about life on her family's Oklahoma farm during the terrible drought of the 1930s when the region was known as the "Dust Bowl." |
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Moxie
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Phyllis Rossiter |
Thirteen-year-old Drew, determined to help his family hold onto their farm in the drought-stricken Dust Bowl of 1934, stubbornly tends his livestock and refuses to give up hope. |
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The Rivers of Zadaa (Pendragon #6)
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D. J. MacHale |
The struggle of good versus evil continues as Bobby Pendragon follows Saint Dane to the territory of Zadaa. Saint Dane's influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Ro… |
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Heart of a jaguar
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Marc Talbert |
Balam, a Mayan boy struggling to achieve manhood, participates in fasts, prayers, and rituals to appease the gods and bring rain to his village. |
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Eaters of the Dry Season
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David Rain |
An examination of the changing geography of seasonal mobility in the African Sahel. Against a contextual backdrop of demographic, ecological, and political-economic changes in the region, the text di… |
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