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Author
Series
I survived volume 12
Language
English
Description
A young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947.
2) Tornadoes!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes what tornadoes are, how they form, the scale used for classifying them, and what to do in case one approaches.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces tornadoes, discussing their causes, different types, unpredictability, and some examples of destructive storms of the recent past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tornadoes are the most violent storms on the planet-as these photographs filled with before-and-after images of storm sites reveal. What makes a tornado, where they strike, and what scientists discover as they risk their lives driving equipment as close as possible to these storms. With first-person accounts of historic storms, facts on climate change and its potential effect on tornadoes, and hands-on activities.
6) Tornadoes
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discusses the science behind tornadoes, including how and where they form, the scientific methods to track and predict them, and tornado safety tips"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
157 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 was the deadliest tornado strike in American history, tearing through three states and killing 700 people. Almost a century later, the Joplin Tornado was a mile-wide monster that destroyed the heart of a vibrant city. The true stories of these two events plus fascinating facts, profiles of tornado scientists and storm chasers.--
10) Tornadoes
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
11) Tornadoes
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Learn all about tornadoes, from what causes them to what effects they have on humans."--
12) Tornadoes
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes tornadoes, how they form, and the tools scientists use to predict them"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster--the supercell tornado--that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 301 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Weaving together heart-wrenching stories with immersive reporting and dramatic storytelling, a gripping account of a weather event in April 2011 that saw a record 358 tornadoes rip through 21 states in three days shows how things that tear our world apart also reveal what holds us together.
16) Good Hope Road
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 2
Language
English
Description
In a time of crisis, two women come together and set off down a road of hope in this novel in the Tending Roses series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours.
Twenty-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, doesn’t imagine any good could come out of the tornado that has ripped across the Missouri farmland where she makes her home. But...
Twenty-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, doesn’t imagine any good could come out of the tornado that has ripped across the Missouri farmland where she makes her home. But...
17) Twister!
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
18) Let the sky fall
Author
Series
Sky fall series volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston, now seventeen, has no memory of that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.
19) Twisters!
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Pub
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how tornadoes form and what effects they have on people and their surroundings.
20) Tornado!
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the storms sometimes known as twisters, including how and where they occur, the damage they can do, and some of the worst tornadoes in recorded history.
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