droughts

Recounts the experiences of six families and they communities as they struggle to survive the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Great Depression.

A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.

Discusses the importance of water to life on Earth, looks at the problem of diminishing water supplies, and examines efforts to regulate water demand.

The demonic Saint Dane attempts to take over Loor's home planet of Zadaa, opposed once again by the teenaged Pendragon and other Travelers.

Provides a brief description, through the story of one family, of the Dust Bowl, a series of dust storms that forced hundreds of thousands of families to leave their homes and farms and migrate away from the Great Plains area of the United States between 1930 and 1939.

"Sent by their command to the AEtherians' water-extraction site, a group of ten Cthonian scouts travels for days across the desert. Their mission: to find water for their drought-afflicted civilization. When a reconnaissance team joins them, the Cthonians send scouts up to AEtheria through an access pipe to request water while wells are being dug. But when two of the scouts' bodies plunge to the ground from above, the plan changes--and one enraged Cthonian commander strikes back"--Provided by publisher.

While his father fights in the war for water, eleven-year-old Auden and his mother move to Cambridge, where Auden and his new friend Vivi discover his dead uncle's last, unfinished scientific achievement--a poetry-spouting robot seeking his purpose.

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.

"This book provides a broad overview of water, sanitation, and hygiene problems faced by both developing and developed nations around the globe and suggests how these problems can be solved by imaginative and innovative thinking"--Provided by publisher.

Answers questions about droughts such as how they occur, how scientists keep track of droughts, and how to help conserve water during a drought.