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Cora and the terrible twister : a tri-state tornado survival story
—Gilbert, Julie, 1976- author.
2024

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"Cora Moffat is struggling to concentrate on her English class when her teacher's focus lands on a classroom window. As the class turns to look, they...
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Claudia in the storm : a Hurricane Katrina survival story
—McConduit, Denise Walter, author.
2023

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"With Hurricane Katrina on track to hit New Orleans, twelve-year-old Claudia and her family are preparing to weather the storm. But nothing can prepar...
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Nina under arrest : a Birmingham Children's Crusade survival story
—Butler-Ngugi, Anitra, author.
2023

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"It's May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding th...
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Essie and the march on Selma : a Bloody Sunday survival story
—Butler-Ngugi, Anitra, author.
2023

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"Twelve-year-old Essie believes that Black people should be allowed to vote, and she's willing to march for that right. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, she...
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Anya flees the fallout : a Chernobyl survival story
—Falligant, Erin, author.
2024

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Twelve-year-old Anya lives in the town of Pripyat, not far from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and in 1986 when her firefighter father is injured...
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Faye and the dangerous journey : an Ojibwe Removal survival story
—Sigafus, Kim, author.
2025

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It's 1850, and twelve-year-old Faye and many other Ojibwe are forced to travel hundreds of miles to collect payment owed to them. But when they arrive...
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Maria and the plague : a Black Death survival story
—Deen, Natasha, author.
2021

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The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year...
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Molly and the Twin Towers : a 9/11 survival story
—Fleck, Jessika, author.
2021

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When the Twin Towers fall on September 11, 2001, blocks from her school, twelve-year-old Molly, unable to reach her dads or Gran, must find her seven-...
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Constance and the dangerous crossing : a Mayflower survival story
—Gilbert, Julie, 1976- author.
2021

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In 1620 an orphaned fifteen-year-old servant girl joins Separatists seeking religious freedom and others aboard the Mayflower as they undertake a peri...
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Fumiko and a Tokyo tragedy : a Great Kanto Earthquake survival story
—Griner, Susan, author.
2023

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When the Great Kanto Earthquake strikes Tokyo on September 1, 1923, twelve-year-old Fumiko must navigate the ensuing chaos and confusion in her fight...
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Alice on the island : a Pearl Harbor survival story
—Poe, Mayumi Shimose, author.
2019

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In 1941, thirteen-year-old Alice's days are filled with swimming in the Hawaiian sea, going to school, and helping watch her younger siblings. But on...
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Ann fights for freedom : an Underground Railroad survival story
—Smith, Nikki Shannon, 1971- author.
2019

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In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, d...
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Emmi in the city : a Great Chicago Fire survival story
—Alikhan, Salima, author.
2019

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Although Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant n the early 1870s, she's often tea...
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Carrie and the Great Storm : a Galveston Hurricane survival story
—Gunderson, Jessica, author.
2020

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In early September 1900, twelve-year-old Carrie of Galveston is looking forward to spending Saturday night at her friend's house, until her parents ar...
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Daisy and the deadly flu : a 1918 influenza survival story
—Gilbert, Julie, 1976- author.
2020

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Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper...
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Tara and the towering wave : an Indian Ocean tsunami survival story
—Oxtra, Cristina, author.
2020

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While vacationing in Thailand for the holidays, Tara and her mother are thrown into survival mode when a massive tsunami sweeps through Phuket....
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Mary and the Trail of Tears : a Cherokee removal survival story
—Rogers, Andrea L., author.
2020

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It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men...
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Leah braves the flood : a Great Molasses Flood survival story
—Gilbert, Julie, 1976- author.
2020

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In 1919 Boston, an orphaned eighth-grade girl plans to head west to become a cowboy until the giant tank of molasses in her neighborhood explodes....
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Maribel versus the volcano : a Mount St. Helens survival story
—Gómez, Sarah Hannah, author.
2020

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Twelve-year-old Maribel daydreams at school, but when she defies evacuation orders to return home just as Mount St. Helens erupts in 1980, she must fo...
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Lily and the great quake : a San Francisco earthquake survival story
—Bybee, Veeda, author.
2020

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Just turned twelve, Lily is the oldest of the three children in her Chinese American family living in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake hits; her...

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… known as the Huntress, Nina must use all her wits to survive. British war correspondent, Ian Graham, has … that a Nazi killer may be hiding in plain sight.   The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff 1946, Manhattan. One morning …

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Books That Became Oscar-Nominated Movies

… known in the neighborhood for their charitable work. The girls amuse themselves at home with imaginative fun and … and each daughter has her own part to play in it. The March girls are so deftly and vividly drawn that everyone who …

Reading and Video Resources

… inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls   Residential Schools Hoopla Indigenous Reading and …
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