Author : Keay Davidson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0671000292
The most dangerous and least understood atmospheric phenomenon, tornadoes are the subject of a upcoming Steven Spielberg thriller entitled Twister. Complete with spectacular close-up photos, this book explores the genesis of tornadoes and profiles the scientists who try to monitor them.
Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN : 9780345409706
Scientists are pursuing the most destructive weatherfront to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years. By launching electronic sensors into the funnel, the storm chasers hope to obtain enough data to create an improved warning system. But to do so, they must intercept the twisters' deadly path. Original screenplay from the motion picture.
Author : Anne Schreiber
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780439204194
The kids in Ms. Frizzle's class are getting ready for the Wild Weather Show. To prepare, they take a field trip to the Weatherama Amusement Park. The class finds out just how wild weather can be when they accidentally fly right into a powerful tornado.
Author : Lucille Recht Penner
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0375862242
Reading on your own One moment, it is sunny and calm. The next moment, a whirling black funnel cloud touches down. Take cover! It’s a twister! This classic Step into Reading science title is brimming with facts about tornadoes and hurricanes. Whether kids are interested in the science of how they form, the history of famous storms, or offbeat stories like the tornado that picked up hundreds of fish and dropped them on a town, they’ll find it in Twisters!, now with all-new illustrations and photographs throughout.
Author : Ivy Ruckman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 1986-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0064401766
When a tornado watch is issued one Tuesday evening in June, twelve-year-old Dan Hatch and his best friend, Arthur, don't think much of it. After all, tornado warnings are a way of life during the summer in Grand Island, Nebraska. But soon enough, the wind begins to howl, and the lights and telephone stop working. Then the emergency siren starts to wail. Dan, his baby brother, and Arthur have only seconds to get to the basement before the monstrous twister is on top of them. Little do they know that even if they do survive the storm, their ordeal will have only just begun. . . .
Author : Jack M. Bickham
Publisher :
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Tornadoes
ISBN : 9780385114998
Over 150 tornadoes hit the mid-United States and bring terror and panic to the inhabitants.
Author : Darleen Bailey Beard
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2003-03-24
Category : Siblings
ISBN : 9780613597494
For use in schools and libraries only. In this vividly written story, Natt and Lucile learn that life can change with terrifying rapidity when, on a lovely summer day as they are playing outdoors, an onrushing tornado drives them into the storm cellar.
Author : Michael Dahl
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 143420488X
The Page Turners, two powerful books from the Library of Doom, have fallen into the hands of an evil magician. He turns the books into two terrible tornadoes, to destroy the Librarian. But when the twisters suddenly head toward a small village, the Librarian must risk his life to stop them.
Author : Doug Peterson
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0310424291
The citizens of Bumblyburg are no longer showing compassion! They are committing outrageous crimes and giving into peer-pressure amidst some unusually stormy weather. Something is amiss in the city of Bumblyburg, and LarryBoy is out to discover who’s behind these evil doings.Little does he know, it’s none other than the evil genius, Plum Loco. This cold-hearted plum has created a new device called the Brain-twister which rages through town mixing up brains, causing the citizens of Burblyburg to end up on the receiving end of their own teasing. How will LarryBoy calm this storm and show everyone the importance of being kind?Through imaginative and innovative products, Zonderkidz is feeding young souls.
Author : Juliette Forrest
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1407185225
Twister's beloved father has gone missing and as she's searching for him she stumbles across a witch living in the woods. She is given a magical necklace that holds the souls of living things and can turn the wearer into a wolf, or a rushing river, or a rainstorm. But there's a dark foe on the hunt for this necklace, a baddie who wears a coat crawling with creatures and who might have something to do with her father's sudden disappearance...
