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2) The farmer
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 x 28 cm
Description
Paul works hard on his farm while those in the village are resting, but when drought comes, friends unexpectedly arrive to lend a hand.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
As Pelican Island's history-making drought wears on, the water level on Bex and Davey's beloved marsh reveals the hand of a statue that has been underneath the water for who knows how long, and the siblings are determined to find out more.
4) Dry
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
6) Dry
Author
Description
"The authors do not hold back." —Booklist (starred review)
"The palpable desperation that pervades the plot...feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The Shustermans challenge readers." —School Library Journal (starred review)
"No one does doom like Neal Shusterman." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
When the...
"The palpable desperation that pervades the plot...feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The Shustermans challenge readers." —School Library Journal (starred review)
"No one does doom like Neal Shusterman." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
When the...
7) Skylark
Author
Series
Description
The second book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal–winning Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.
My mother, Sarah, doesn't love the prairie. She tries, but she can't help remembering what she knew first.
Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turned the land dry and brown. Fires swept across the fields and coyotes came to the well in search of water.
...Author
Pub. Date
c1981
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Description
A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.
A tale, told in rhythmic, read-along verse, describes how a resourceful bull finds water for his thirsty herd and ends the drought afflicting the plain.
Author
Pub. Date
]2017]
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
As Calvin grows from childhood to adulthood, he and his parents endure four years of dust storms and drought following "Black Sunday" in 1935, and he becomes determined to preserve the land rather than exploit it. Includes historical note.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Description
Guided by a blue hummingbird, Jade brings an offering to the Mountain Spirit who lives near her village in Mexico, and asks if he will send rain to end the drought that threatens the people. Includes information about the legend on which this story is based and facts about corn.
Author
Series
Wild magic trilogy (Celine Kiernan) volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Third in a darkly enchanting trilogy after Begone the Raggedy Witches and The Little Grey Girl, The Promise Witch opens in a time of heat and thirst. The deposed old tyrant of a queen sent a cursed winter to bury Witches Borough in snow. Months later, the clouds have vanished, but an equally cursed drought has settled over the castle and its river, now bone-dry. Witches Borough is dying, and though Mup is the pathfinder, the stitcher of worlds, is...
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