Books with title The Storm Dog

When a hurricane threatens the only home she has ever known, a girl and her grandmother must work together to save what they can. They are alone on the island for weeks waiting on the girl’s father and his men to return. The aftermath of the storm forces the girl to leave her home and relocate to the American colonies. Ten years later, while living in the North Carolina mountains, she must face another type of storm that will much harder to survive, the American Revolution. ---”Stephanie Albright will leave readers holding their breath, waiting in anticipation for what will happen next. The Storm will leave you intoxicated by its charming prose told from the eyes of an innocent girl.”

Laney and her friends have survived 6 days into the apocalypse and have made it back to their Arizona hometown—but now ferocious dust storms are threatening their lives. Without a working vehicle, Laney must think of a way to help their group of nine escape to the eastern side of the country, to where her father might still be alive. Even though she's promised to stick with her friends and not give up hope, Laney knows better - not all of them are likely to survive the journey and she may once again have to face the loss of someone she cares about. And worst of all, as the new leader of her group, another loss will be her fault, her worst nightmare. But as Laney leads her friends from Colton and out into the new world, she finds out the storms are not her only enemy. Other survivors are, too, and kindness no longer exists. Worst of all, an old enemy might have survived a bit longer than she hoped...

The school holidays always brought the gang back together. Brothers John and Joel were there all year round, but Lucy, Emily, Sarah, and James only came to stay when term ended. When they got together this summer, John and Joel already had a story to tell.The freak storm had come from nowhere and was the worst either of the brothers had ever seen: a deluge of rain, gale force winds, deafening thunder, and blinding flashes of lightning seemed to chase them home from their fishing trip. When a terrifying bolt of lightning split the old oak tree clean in half, they barely escaped unscathed.When the six of them return to survey the damage, they make a strange discovery which leads to an old mystery. As if the mighty tree had finally tired of keeping its secrets and wanted the truth to finally be known.

A doomed love. A desperate fight for survival. A coming storm.Luke managed to survive his first real battle with the siren sisters, but one victory does not mean the end of the war. Even as he struggles to find a balance between trying to live a normal life and coping with unusual changes brought on by his siren heritage, the three sisters continue to plot his demise. And this time, they're about to raise the stakes by using the people that he cares about most in order to get to him. The stage is set for another fight, but how far is Luke willing to go to protect himself and his friends? Armed with powers unlike anything that he ever thought possible, will those powers be enough to stop the sirens from killing him? Can he bring himself to take a life in order to save his own?The Storm is a young adult novel sure to appeal to fans of mermaids, paranormal romance, dark fantasy, and supernatural mystery and suspense.Book Two in The Siren Sisters series.

Following a series of devastating hurricanes in 2004, Calle Jenkins and her family return home to Key West. Finding nothing left but wreckage, her parents decide to start over. For fourteen year old Calle, starting over means finding friends who evacuated or rode out the storms, starting a new kind of school, and realizing that, for a while at least, life is going to be very different from what she expected. To help her cope, her mother gives her a journal written by a teenaged relative over a century ago. Elizabeth Berg lives on Galveston Island in 1900, and despite there being some family troubles, doesn’t want to live anywhere else. To her, Galveston is heaven on earth. Until Mr. Isaac Cline warns them that serious changes are at their heels, and with them, the apocalypse. By then, there is no way or nowhere to run. All lines of communication and transportation have been destroyed. Buildings were shredded and thousands perished as the winds howled and the sea rose. For Elizabeth and Calle, life moved on. “The Storm” of September 8, 1900 remains the deadliest hurricane in US history.

With magical words and striking pictures, this is a book that adults and children alike will want to read time and time again. Famous English poet Walter de la Mare wrote “The Storm.” Joanna Kangisher has beautifully depicted the poem using birds and scenery from her local beach in the Manawatu in New Zealand. This book aids numeracy and language extension in children. Information is also included on the author and the Red Billed Gull depicted. The book concludes with a glossary to explain the tricky words in the poem for young readers.