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Books with title Droughts

  • Droughts

    Anne Ylvisaker

    School & Library Binding (Capstone Press, March 15, 1805)
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  • Droughts

    Anne Ylvisaker

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2003)
    Explains why droughts occur, describes the damage this natural disaster inflicts, the difficulty in predicting them, and some of the worst droughts in history.
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  • Droughts

    Michael Woods And Mary B Woods

    Paperback (Lerner Books, March 15, 2010)
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  • Drought

    Pam Bachorz

    eBook (Carolrhoda Lab ®, Aug. 1, 2016)
    A young girl thirsts for love and freedom, but at what cost?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.
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  • Droughts

    Patrick Merrick

    Library Binding (Childs World Inc, Jan. 1, 2015)
    Provides information about the causes of droughts, where they occur, their characteristics, and the effects they produce.
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  • Droughts

    Anne Ylvisaker

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Explains why droughts occur, describes the damage this natural disaster inflicts, the difficulty in predicting them, and some of the worst droughts in history.
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  • Droughts

    Louise Park

    Library Binding (Black Rabbit Books, Feb. 28, 2008)
    Created especially for readers in the elementary grades, this series explains in clear terms the science and hardship of historic natural disasters, and to aid with school reports, includes a chronology, website addresses, glossary, index, and suggestions for further reading.
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  • Droughts

    Dennis B. Fradin

    Library Binding (Childrens Pr, Nov. 1, 1983)
    Discusses the causes and effects of drought, including the dust storms that devastated the Great Plains during the 1930's and other periods of disastrous drought and famine throughout history.
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  • Droughts

    Louise Park

    Hardcover (Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd, March 12, 2007)
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  • Drought

    Pam Bachorz

    Paperback (Scholastic, Aug. 16, 2011)
    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
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  • Drought

    Andrew Salkey

    Paperback (Peepal Tree Press Ltd., May 1, 2011)
    It is the dry season and the small village of Nain, Jamaica, is suffering. Its people, livestock, and crops have all been affected by the drought, and the outlook is bleak. But Seth Stone and his friends Man Boy, Benjie, Double Ugly, and Mango Head are determined to take matters into their own hands—with unexpected results.
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  • Drought

    Catherine Chambers

    Paperback (Heinemann/Raintree, May 1, 2002)
    Describes what causes droughts, the conditions that exist during a drought, the harmful and beneficial effects of dry periods, and their impact on humans, plants, and animals.
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