Central Kansas Library System

"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the science behind hurricanes, including where and why hurricanes happen and how to stay safe when the wind starts to blow. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--

This book describes hurricanes, explaining how they form, what they can do, how meteorologists predict them, and what people can do to prepare for them.

When Jack and Annie travel back in time to Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, they find themselves facing a horrific storm that resulted in the worst natural disaster in US history.

Describes how tornadoes and hurricanes form and the damage they do.

Looks at all the big storms created by Mother Nature run amuk--from lightning and thunder to monsoons, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Features superlatives, jokes, and best of all, the incredible photographs available only from National Geographic.

Discusses where hurricanes come from, what types there are, and what can be done during one.

Uses simple text and color photographs to explain the science behind hurricanes.

An introduction to hurricanes, describing their causes and destructive force, how they are predicted and named, and how to protect people from these terrible storms.

Learn about real life heroes who risk their lives studying hurricanes. It's a sunny, beautiful day on America's southeastern coast. But out in the Atlantic Ocean, chaos is brewing. Waves are crashing. Winds are blowing. And the National Hurricane Center is calling the Hurricane Hunters! A special weather reconnaissance squadron of the Air Force, these brave men and women fly their WC-130 Hercules aircraft into the heart of a two-hundred-mile-wide...