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Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On the family's Brazos River Ranch in Texas, Avery Elliott helps run her grandfather's commercial construction business. Raised by Senator Elliott, Avery has never doubted her grandfather is the man of integrity and faith she's always believed him to be . . . until the day she finds him standing with a gun over the body of a dead man. To make matters worse, Avery's just discovered a billing discrepancy for materials supposedly purchased for construction...
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Siblings May, Lily, and Noah build a dam. Stone by stone, their dam grows higher and higher, until their creation attracts the attention of fishermen, pirates, and even the King and his fleet. The sky's the limit, until Noah wants his stone back...Each page builds upon the previous scene as the children's imaginations also grow. Children will delight in pointing out the changing details on each page as they laugh along to this picture book about...
3) Good water
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tommy Reeves and his pal Red Armstrong make friends with the Mexican people who live near the ranch where they work. Their foreman tells them to stay away from the Mexican girls, but the boys do not heed the warning and are fired. Then they find out that Vinch Cushman, their former employer, is trying to force the Mexican people off their land by damming the creek that supplies their water. When Red goes to sabotage the dam, he is shot dead. Tommy...
5) The chill
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Far upstate, in New York's ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that's what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families, settled there since America's founding, were forced from their land, but they didn't move far, and some...
Author
Series
Publisher
Green Light Readers/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Last night the rain poured down. Today the stream is empty! Where did the water go? It's a good thing mouse detectives Dot and Jabber are on the case! Their search upstream leads to funny encounters with a puddle of minnows, a snake, and lots of clues" --
Author
Series
Dam Keeper volume 1
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Life in Sunrise Valley is tranquil, but beyond its borders lies certain death. A dangerous black fog looms outside the village, but its inhabitants are kept safe by an ingenious machine known as the dam. Pig's father built the dam and taught him how to maintain it. And then this brilliant inventor did the unthinkable: he walked into the fog and was never seen again. Now Pig is the dam keeper. Except for his best friend, Fox, and the town bully, Hippo,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, below; told in the voices of six children and many othersthis is the story of the ordinary people of the town, their losses and their survival--and of the bitter aftermath when those for whom the dam was built denied all responsibility for the shoddy dam...
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 530L
Language
English
Description
"Beyond the dam lies certain death--this is something every citizen of Sunrise Valley knows well. Yet, when a poisonous black tidal wave carries Pig, Fox, and Hippo over the dam and into the wastelands, they don't find death. Instead they find bustling cities, each with their own dams. Pig can't help but wonder, who is the mysterious dam keeper behind it all? But he doesn't have time to unravel this mystery. The wave of deadly black fog will return...
10) One foot in Eden
Author
Publisher
Novello Festival Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Sunrise Valley is without a dam keeper, and time is running out. In less than twenty-four hours, the poisonous tidal wave of black fog will descend on Pig's home. While Fox, Hippo, and Van hurry east to warn the townspeople, Pig ventures on his own path. Pig is following a trail of clues that are inexplicably linked to his father, and now that trail is leading upward. What he finds on a floating island above the clouds will shake him to his core,...
12) Mary Ann Alice
Author
Publisher
Buffalo
Pub. Date
2002.
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
When a new project is presented to dam up the Gatineau River, Mary Ann Alice McCrank and her teacher, Patchy Drizzle, know that many wonderful fossils and rocks will be lost forever and experience mixed feelings like others in the community.
13) Dragon bones
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
14) A single pebble
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1956.
Language
English
Description
While in China on business in the 1920s, a young American engineer becomes involved in the lives of people who live on a junk on the Yangtze River.
17) Frontier horizon
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013, 1939]
Language
English
Description
The "Three Mesquiteers" save the settlers from a construction company which wants to build a dam on their land.
19) Watershed
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Amidst construction of a federal dam in rural Tennessee, Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, meets Claire, a small-town housewife struggling to find her footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn't known she possessed. The arrival of electricity...
20) The dam busters
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Tells the true World War II story of how the Royal Air Force 617 Squadron carried out a raid on three of the most important dams in Germany.
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