Jaden's summer visit with her meteorologist father, who has just returned from spending four years in Russia conducting weather experiments not permitted in the United States, fills her with apprehension and fear as she discovers that living at her father's planned community Placid Meadows is anything but placid.
A boy and his grandmother know just how to make use of a good breeze--they grab the boy's kite and head outside. However, soon the breeze gives way to a wind, the kite gets loose, and the boy and grandmother will have to catch it before the storm rolls in.
Jack and Annie are blown away and land on a prairie near a one-room schoolhouse, where they meet a teenage schoolteacher, some cool kids, and one big, scary bully.
Describes the atmospheric conditions which create thunderstorms, hailstorms, lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes and how violent weather affects the environment and people.
In the middle of a dark, stormy night, one child, then another, then a third wake their mother and ask to climb into the bed, but when the last member of the family arrives Papa declares there is no more room.
"Children's faces, depicted with letters of the alphabet, react to the onset of a storm and its aftermath in this picture book, accompanied by simple alliterative text"--Provided by publisher.
"When a forty-seven-foot sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream in the throes of a calamitous storm, it leaves behind three weary passengers struggling to stay alive afloat a life raft in violent waves 80 feet tall"--Provided by publisher.
