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1) Drought
Author
Pub. Date
2011
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Description
Ruby's blood holds the secret to the Water that keeps her and her fellow Congregants alive and enriches Darwin West, who has enslaved them for two centuries, but when her romance with an Overseer, Ford, brings her freedom in the modern world, she faces a terrible choice.
2) Skylark
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Series
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"When twelve-year-old Della Kelly finds her mother furiously digging black seeds from a watermelon in the middle of the night and talking to people who aren't there, Della worries that it’s happening again—that the sickness that put her mama in the hospital four years ago is back. That her mama is going to be hospitalized for months like she was last time. With her daddy struggling to save the farm and her mama in denial about what’s happening,...
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Series
Daisy Dawson volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Description
Everyday adventures with a girl who can talk to animals! The weather is hot, hot, hot, and the farm animals are getting grumpy. The pigs are arguing with the chickens, and the ducks and newts are sad because their pond has dried up. Where will the water animals live? Luckily, they have the help of Daisy Dawson, but it may take the elegant and snooty cat Trixie to make the rain fall at last. Warm up to the fifth adventure featuring Daisy Dawson, the...
5) Dry
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Description
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
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Gooseberry Park volume 2
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Stumpy, Murray, Gwendolyn, and Kona recruit Herman the crow and 200 owls to help with their Master Plan to assist the animals of Gooseberry Park that are in trouble because of a months-long drought.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
As Pelican Island's history-making drought wears on, the water level on Bex and Davey's beloved marsh reveals the hand of a statue that has been underneath the water for who knows how long, and the siblings are determined to find out more.
10) Bravo, Tavo!
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Tavo dreams of nothing but being a famous basketball star, and getting new shoes so that he can practice better, but his village in Mexico faces a serious drought and Tavo and his father must work to convince the other people that the old way of irrigation will save their crops.
Series
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Lydia the patriot: A 12-year-old's life is changed by the Boston Massacre.
Kate and the spies: An 11-year-old must choose sides, political and family, in the American Revolution.
Betsy's river adventure: a 13-year-old leaves everything familiar in Boston for the frontier town of Cincinnati.
Grace and the bully: a 10-year-old experiences poverty during a time of drought and depression.