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1) Disasters
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Takes a close-up look at some of nature's biggest disasters including tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcacnic eruptions, floods, tsunamis, wildfires, and pandemics.
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived, while the outside world is overcome by gene-spliced life forms.
4) Disasters
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Examines the issue of disaster relief and natural disasters from a variety of international perspectives.
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The horror of Hurricane Katrina is brought vividly to life in this fictional account of a boy, a dog, and the storm of the century.
Author
Series
Lost night files volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to connect with others who also had a lost night they can’t remember, Pallas, after receiving a tip on her podcast, travels to a small college town to explore an abandoned asylum where she helps her mysterious tipster investigate a murder that is connected to them both.
Author
Language
English
Description
The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.
When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into "the Metropolis of the World."...
When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into "the Metropolis of the World."...
11) Geostorm
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a network of weather-controlling satellites fails, its creator rushes to find out who is behind the attempt to influence the weather before the Earth is destroyed by a global storm.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world
13) Savage tsunamis
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
14) Floods
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces floods, discussing what can cause them, the damage they can inflict, and how to survive during one.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seen through the diary of Jacob, an Amish farmer trying to protect his family and his way of life, the book examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos when an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath of a catastrophic solar storm and the subsequent collapse of modern civilization.
16) The darkest hour
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While vacationing in Moscow, five young people find themselves in the middle of an alien attack and must fight back to survive.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A leading seismologist examines the worlds greatest natural disasters and the lingering effect they have had on human lives, including Pompeii, the California floods of 1862 and more recent events, including the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and the 2017 American hurricane season.
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