Books with title Drought

An examination of droughts. It is part of a series which looks at a range of natural disasters, both as fascinating natural phenomena and as the cause of devastating human and environmental damage. The series covers weather extremes, the effects of disasters on the environment, their human impact and how we deal with them. Each book includes case studies of famous natural disasters; age-appropriate geographical and scientific information; and information about how we attempt to monitor disasters and the people and places at risk.

Ruby dreams of escaping the Congregation. Escape from slaver Darwin West and his cruel Overseers. Escape from struggling to gather the life-prolonging Water that keeps the Congregants alive--and Darwin rich. Escape from her certain, dreary existence, living as if it's still the early 1800s, when the Congregation was first enslaved. But if Ruby leaves, the Congregation will die without the secret ingredient to the Water: her blood. So she stays, and prays to their savior Otto, who first gave Water to the Congregants... and fathered Ruby before he vanished.

Ruby dreams of escaping the Congregation. Escape from slaver Darwin West and his cruel Overseers. Escape from the backbreaking work of gathering Water. Escape from living as if it is still 1812, the year they were all enslaved.When Ruby meets Ford — an irresistible, kind, forbidden new Overseer — she longs to run away with him to the modern world where she could live a normal teenage life. Escape with Ford would be so simple.But if Ruby leaves, her community is condemned to certain death. She, alone, possesses the secret ingredient that makes the Water so special — her blood — and it’s the one thing that the Congregation cannot live without.Drought is the haunting story of one community’s thirst for life, and the dangerous struggle of the only girl who can grant it.