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Maze runner trilogy volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
Reveals how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze against the backdrop of an apocalyptic world.
The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled. Then came a plague. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man. Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then they found the perfect boy: Thomas, who built a maze. Now there are secrets. There are lies. And there are loyalties history could never have foreseen.
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English
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"From the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series come five harrowing true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters. From a group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these unforgettable kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction -- and, against all odds, survival. Read their incredible stories: The...
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English
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"In a future where a botched scientific experiment has flooded the planet, twins Will and Annalie finally set a course to intercept their father. He is protecting research about the flood's origins that the corrupt Admiralty is bent on turning to their own sinister purposes."--
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 30
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history"--
7) Heart stones
Author
Publisher
McSea Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sailors are lost at sea after a storm. When heart shaped stones begin to wash up on the shore followed by strange magical events in town, young Gale and Celia try to solve the mystery and heal a broken community.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the power of human connection, while encouraging empathy and acts of generosity, this story follows two refugee brothers as they journey to a sheltering beach where they are welcomed by fellow survivors.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Each of the three seeds in this story--a cherry seed in the MIddle East, an acacia seed in Australia, and a lotus seed in Asia--survives a difficult journey through flood, fire, or drought, then sprouts (in the case of the lotus seed, a hundred years later) and flourishes. To author Stephie Morton, nature's powerful forces are a metaphor for the hardships faced by displaced children. Kids, like seeds, thrive when given a chance. Stephie's verses...
12) Swallow's dance
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Leira is starting her initiation as a priestess when her world is turned upside down. A violent earthquake leaves her home in pieces. And the goddess hasn't finished with the island yet. With her family, Leira flees across the sea to Crete, expecting sanctuary. But a volcanic eruption and tsunami throw the entire world into darkness. In the resulting chaos, Leira finds her noble-born privilege reduced to nothing; alone with her injured mother and...
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After tsunami waves sweep over the Imagination Station, it breaks down completely. Patrick and Beth wash up on the shores of Japan on September 1, 1923. The cousins fear if the water doesn't get them, the earthquake will! Disaster engulfs the city of Tokyo, leaving families and friends separated and desperate. Thanks to a Japanese celebrity and a performing elephant, the cousins escape the worst of the earthquake and aid an abandoned child. They reach...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
If her town is to be evacuated due to flooding, high school senior and class clown Keeley wants to cheer up her friends and pursue her big crush.
The town of Aberdeen is sliding underwater and everyone was ordered to pack up and leave. While the adults plan for the future, box up their possessions, and find new places to live, Keeley Hewitt and her friends decide to go out with a bang. There are parties in abandoned houses. Canoe races down Main...
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Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Yui, fleeing her violent husband, and Hiyori, a young orphan, are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga, a lost house, perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea. While helping to rebuild Kitsunezaki, the three adapt to their new lives and supernatural new home, slowly healing from their...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Seven middle schoolers brought to Yellowstone National Park, supposedly for a series of summer science experiments, learn that they are actually trying to stop a supervolcano from erupting.
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