Central Kansas Library System

The tiny town of Chewandswallow was very much like any other tiny town except for its weather which came three times a day, at breakfast lunch and dinner. But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never blew just wind. It rained things like soup and juice. It snowed things like mashed potatoes. And sometimes the wind blew in storms of hamburgers. Life for the townspeople was delicious until the weather took a turn for the worse. The...

Celebrates the beauty of a snowfall and its happy effects on children.

The magic school bus is off on another "field trip". This time, they find themselves in the middle of a hurricane.

An introduction to windmills and their advantages as renewable energy providers, with activities for understanding some of the principles of wind.

Noah and Emma expect to be bored during their stay in Alaska, but during a day trip to a remote island, a once-dormant volcano suddenly erupts and Noah and Emma must fight to survive.

His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.

A fictional account of one of the worst storms to hit the Caribbean--Hurricane Mitch in 1998--told from the perspective of a thirteen-year-old boy living in a small village in Honduras.

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 nearly destroyed the heart of a vibrant city. The author of the "New York Times" best-selling "I Survived" series now brings you the vivid and true stories of two young people who survived these terrifying twisters, along with fascinating facts...

Explores the causes, changing patterns, and forecasting of weather. Uses photographs of actual weather patterns to illustrate ideas presented in the text.

From 14-year-old Joseph Dunn who was the lone survivor of the Shark Attacks of 1916, to 9-year-old Mike Kramer who, with the help of his quick-thinking parents, survived the Peshtigo fire of 1871 (which took place on the very same day in history as the Great Chicago Fire!), to the 13-year-old girl who survived a terrifying attack by a box jellyfish, this is a collection of unforgettable narrative non-fiction stories of unimaginable destruction --...