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Innovators dealing with natural disasters

2020
Readers discover the amazing stories behind these innovators and the ways they're using science, technology, engineering, and math skills to save lives.
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Preparing for a flood =

Preparandonos para una inundacion
Staying safe is important during a natural disaster. This book will help children stay safe during a flood and prepare for the possible aftermath. Reading this book and staying well-prepared can provide comfort to children before, during, and after this destructive force.
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The weather disaster

Dr. Comic's monster students at Mad Scientist Academy race to stop the CHAOS machine from destroying the school with its destructive weather. In the process, they learn all types of information about weather.
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Katje, the windmill cat

2006
Katje, a cat in fifteenth-century Holland, loses her happy place in her master's home after he gets married and has a baby, but she gets a chance to prove her worth when a threatening storm comes.

I survived the great molasses flood, 1919

"It's been four years since Carmen and Papa moved from Italy to Boston. Life here is exciting, but not always easy. And then there's the massive metal tank that rises up over their crowded North End neighborhood. The ugly tank, filled with sticky brown molasses, has always leaked. But nobody imagined that it could one day explode apart, sending a tsunami of molasses into the streets. Caught in the flood, Carmen must fight for her life, the life that she and Papa built together in America"--OCLC.
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I survived the great molasses flood, 1919

"It's been four years since Carmen and Papa moved from Italy to Boston. Life here is exciting, but not always easy. And then there's the massive metal tank that rises up over their crowded North End neighborhood. The ugly tank, filled with sticky brown molasses, has always leaked. But nobody imagined that it could one day explode apart, sending a tsunami of molasses into the streets. Caught in the flood, Carmen must fight for her life, the life that she and Papa built together in America"--OCLC.
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The flood disaster

After an interview with ninety-five-year-old Doc Keeton, Warren and Betsy use the "Instant Commuter" to travel back to experience the Johnstown flood of 1889.
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Adapting to flooding and rising sea levels

Describes how people are adapting to the increase in flooding and rising sea levels caused by global warming.
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Storm

Having lost her family in a massive flood, sixteen-year-old Sebah finds her way onto a gigantic ark, where she must conceal herself from Noah and his family until it is safe for her and another stowaway to slip away.
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Ben's dream

story and pictures
On a terrifically rainy day, Ben has a dream in which he and his house float by the monuments of the world, half submerged in flood water.
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