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HURRICANESHURRICANESRELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

What's Inside:
  • What a Hurricane Is
  • How a Hurricane Develops
  • Predicting Hurricanes
  • What Hurricane Hunters Do
  • Hurricane Hugo: September 10, 1989
  • Hurricane Hall of Fame: Some of the Worst Storms
  • Preparing for a Hurricane
Features:
  • DIAGRAMS
  • CHARTS / GRAPHS
  • MAPS
  • TIME LINES
  • LEXILE® READING LEVEL: 870L
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Sample Text
"Dark clouds fill the sky. It's the middle of the day, but it looks like night. The wind howls. Rain pelts the ground so hard that holes form in the mud. Tree branches bend and crack. Whole trees are uprooted and crash down. Store windows break. The roofs of buildings sail through the air. Electric wires send out sparks and dangle dangerously from broken utility poles. Signs fly across highways. . . . "
RELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS
TORNADOESTORNADOES
"They've been called winds of death and nature's most terrifying spectacles. They've been labeled random killers and the most violent creatures of the atmosphere. They've been described as a huge elephant trunk searching for food . . . a delicate dance of ghosts . . . a monstrous, writhing snake biting the ground . . . the snapping of a bull whip . . . a giant column surrounded by silvery ribbons .. . . "
WEATHERWEATHER
"You may have heard the expression, 'Everyone talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it.' Well, we do talk about weather all the time, because this powerful force of nature affects everything we do. As sophisticated as the modern world is, we are still pretty much at the mercy of the weather. We cancel picnics when it rains and sometimes get a day off from school when it snows. . . "
RAIN & SNOWRAIN & SNOW
"Water takes many forms. Sometimes, it arrives as a howling hurricane. At other times, it creeps around as fog. Water might pelt us as hail, or it might drift silently as snow. Every living thing on Earth needs water. In your lifetime, you will drink around 16,000 gallons of it. Though water covers two-thirds of Earth, most of it is salty, undrinkable ocean water. Only three percent is fresh, or no. . . "
EXTREME WEATHEREXTREME WEATHER
"Earth is warming up. The first six months of 2006 were the warmest in the United States since record-keeping began in 1895. In fact, the five hottest years of the last century have all occurred since 1998. Why does that matter? It means the planet's climate is changing."
VALUE-PACKED SETS
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • Hurricanes (Facts on File Dangerous Weather Series). By Michael Allaby, Facts on File, 2003. Hurricane and Typhoon Alert! (Disaster Alert!). By Paul Challen, Crabtree Publishing Company, 2004.
  • Violent Skies: Hurricanes (Freestyle, Turbulent Planet). By Chris Oxlade, Raintree, 2005.
  • Howling Hurricanes (Awesome Forces of Nature.). By Louise Spilsbury, Heinemann, 2004.
  • Hurricanes and Typhoons (Natural Disasters). By Jacqueline Dineen, Stargazer Publishing Company, 2004.
ADULT BOOKS
  • Hurricanes. By Seymour Simon, HarperCollins, 2003.
  • Hurricanes And Typhoons: Past, Present, And Future. By Richard J. Murnane, Columbia University Press, 2004.
  • Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet. By David M. Toomey, W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.
  • Hurricane Watch : Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth (Vintage Originals). By Jack Williams, Vintage, 2001.
WEBSITES
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: www.noaa.gov
  • The Space Weather Center: www.spaceweathercenter.org/SWOP/1.html
  • FEMA: All about Hurricanes: http://www.fema.gov/kids/hurr.htm
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
  • Miami Museum of Science - Hurricanes Storm Center (Miami, FL):
    www.miamisci.org/www/sln.html