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BECCAOn a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed her-not her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick mother-not even when her watch kept losing time and a spooky halo of light appeared overhead in photographs. Becca was struck again when she was sixteen. She survived, but over time she would learn that outsmarting lightning was the least of her concerns. BUCKLEYIn rural Arkansas,...
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When Chen's parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen's quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely...
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Heroes in training volume 1
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2012
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100 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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When ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped, he discovers he can defend himself with a magical thunderbolt.
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2022.
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Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.
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"Rubin Campo's rough upbringing made him into the man he is today: strong, steadfast and wary of outsiders. When he and his brother return to their family's homestead in the Appalachian Mountains, he can immediately sense that a stranger has taken up residence in their cabin--a woman who just happens to be a GhostWalker too. Jonquille looks deceptively delicate but is clearly a fighter. She also doesn't seem to care that Rubin could kill her where...
10) Lucky strike
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2015.
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263 pages ; 22 cm
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Nathaniel Harlow lives with his grandfather in a trailer park in Franklin County, Florida, and he has always been unlucky--but when he is struck by lightning on his eleventh birthday and survives, it seems like his luck starts to change.
11) Storms
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c2009
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32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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Looks at all the big storms created by Mother Nature run amuk--from lightning and thunder to monsoons, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Features superlatives, jokes, and best of all, the incredible photographs available only from National Geographic.
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Today we think of Benjamin Franklin as a founder of American independence who also dabbled in science. But in Franklin’s day, the era of Enlightenment, long before he was an eminent statesman, he was famous for his revolutionary scientific work. Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray uses the evolution of Franklin’s scientific curiosity and empirical thinking as a metaphor for America’s struggle to establish its fundamental values. He recounts...
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[2015]
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xv, 277 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm
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This definitive account of the Yarnell Hill Fire is a heartbreaking tale of courage, difficult decisions, and ultimate sacrifice. On June 28, 2013, a single bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that devoured more than eight thousand acres in northern Arizona. Twenty elite firefighters--the Granite Mountain Hotshots--walked together into the blaze, tools in their hands and fire shelters on their hips. Only one of them walked out. Journalist-firefighter...
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Heroes in training volume 1
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2022.
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144 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped by the terrible Titans, merciless giants who enjoy snacking on humans, and when, in self-defense, he pulls a magical thunderbolt from a stone, he begins an adventure to rescue his fellow Olympians from the evil Cronus.
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Heroes in training volume 2
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2012
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110 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"The merciless Cronus and his Titan buddies are in hot pursuit of Zeus, Hera, and Poseidon, who plan to travel across the treacherous boiling sea in order to save a fellow Olympian. They have a boat, but they also have a problem: Poseidon can't swim and is terrified of the water (well, really of the creatures that lurk in its depths). The group faces danger after danger as they battle singing sirens, a fishy and ferocious Titan named Oceanus, and...
17) Thunder cake
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c1990
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms. "A memorable picture book that will speak to children about facing their fears and overcoming them".--Booklist, starred review. "A picture book that will appeal mightily to any child who has quaked at the sounds of a thunderstorm.
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