Tornado Weather

Download or read book Tornado Weather written by Deborah E. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Five-year-old Daisy Gonzalez's father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today, he isn't, and Daisy disappears. When Daisy goes missing, nearly everyone in town suspects or knows something different about what happened. And they also know a lot about each other. The immigrants who work in the dairy farm know their employers' secrets. The hairdresser knows everything except what's happening in her own backyard. And the roadkill collector knows love and heartbreak more than anyone would ever expect. They are all connected, in ways small and profound, open and secret"--

Download or read book Tornado Trouble written by Kathryn Lay and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2010 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about tornadoes, using a narrative in which Wendy learns that her new school doesn't have a safety plan for tornadoes and works to change the situation before a tornado can hit.

Download or read book Big Weather written by Mark Svenvold and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author profiles real tornadoes and severe weather patterns over six thousand miles of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, known as Tornado Alley.

Download or read book What Is Severe Weather? written by Jennifer Boothroyd and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are tornadoes? Blizzards? Hurricanes? Readers will learn the ins and outs of severe weather in this book. Accessible text and appealing photos show severe weather conditions and encourage students to be weather aware and to take proper precautions in the event of severe weather.

Download or read book It's a Tornado! written by Nadia Higgins and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roar! Bang! Crash! It's a tornado! Bring the weather indoors with this brightly illustrated series. Easy-to-read text explains the how tornadoes form, how scientists track them, and what to do during tornado watches and warnings. Diagrams, tornado facts, and a glossary provide additional information for use in classrooms. A perfect supplement to your library's weather collection. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades P-3.

Download or read book Tornado God written by Peter J. Thuesen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as superstition, but in America, scientific and theological hubris came face-to-face with the tornado, nature's most violent windstorm. In this groundbreaking history, Peter J. Thuesen traces the primal connections between weather and religion in the United States. He shows that tornadoes and other storms have repeatedly drawn Americans into the profoundest of religious mysteries and confronted them with the question of their own destiny--how much is self-determined and how much is beyond human understanding or control.

Download or read book The Everything KIDS' Weather Book written by Joseph Snedeker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for a 100% chance of scientific fun with The Everyting Kids’ Weather Book filled with hundreds of fun facts, puzzles, and games! Have you ever wondered what happens in the eye of a tornado or how hurricanes gain their strength? From lightning and snow-day blizzards to rainbows and monsoons, The Everything Kid’ Weather Book gives you an exciting look into all the action that happens in the sky, including: -The difference between cirrus and stratocumulus clouds -How meteorologists predict the weather -What the term “a perfect storm” means -How to build a weather station of your own -Why storms depend on how cold and warm fronts interact -How to create weather experiments at home -The effects of global warming on our planet Filled with hundreds of exciting facts and thirty fun weather puzzles and games, The Everything Kids’ Weather Book is perfect for finding out how a barometer works, which cloud is a nimbus cloud, what causes hailstorms—and everything in between!