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Series
Not a drop to drink volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In a barren land, a teen named Lucy and her adoptive mother Lynn are forced to leave the community they know and search the vast countryside for a new home.
Author
Series
Not a drop to drink volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In a barren world where water is a precious resource, Lynn protects a pond on her property from other people and wildlife alike, preserving every drop for her own use. When large groups of people begin approaching and leave threatening messages, however, Lynn realizes they will stop at nothing to obtain her water, and she will have to fight with all she has to protect it.
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 2
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Description
Clive Cussler's New York Times bestselling Blue Gold, now available in ebook, is a heart-pounding thriller in the NUMA adventure series. Kurt Austin navigates the Amazon jungle in search of a legend that could change the path of science—but secretive powers will do anything to stop him.
From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments....
From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
In a world where water has become a precious resource, Vera and her brother befriend a boy who seems to have unlimited access to water and who suspiciously disappears, prompting a dangerous search challenged by pirates, a paramilitary group, and corporations.
7) Pompeii
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
When the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples fails, Roman engineer Marius Primus heads to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius to investigate, only to come face to face with an impending catastrophe.
8) The ward
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Set in a futuristic Manhattan after a catastrophic flood called the Wash Out, sixteen-year-old Ren must race against a conspiracy to find freshwater springs and a cure for the deadly disease that has stricken her sister and many others in the Ward"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Adventure Clive Cussler comes a breathtaking thriller from the Numa Files series about a primitive Brazilian tribe whose secrets could save the world from the billionaire tycoon set on destroying it. An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of gray whales leads National Underwater & Marine Agency leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently...
10) Aquifer: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
�2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In the year 2250, the Council controls the world's fresh water sources. To keep the peace they have, through years of indoctrination, weeded out all emotion--or so they thought. Luca is the son of the Deliverer--who will one day himself have to travel underground and negotiate with the Rat Men for fresh water--and he seems to have retained his emotions. Which makes him dangerous in the eyes of the Council.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In a modern-day Britain experiencing widespread drought, Ruth Ardingly becomes a target of suspicion as her farm remains green and lush, and when her seven-year-old grandson drowns in one of the few remaining ponds in the countryside, Ruth believes his death was no accident.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Cherished by millions of readers, this #1 New York Times bestselling novel is a powerful tale of perseverance and hope. Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park interweaves the stories of two Sudanese children who overcome mortal dangers to improve their lives and the lives of others.
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
At the center are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after a devastating civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones and drenched in deep despair. As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but theyre beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation;...
Author
Series
Max Einstein volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
What does an Irish town and a village in India have in common? A water crisis that only a group of kid geniuses can fix! Max and her CMI friends attempt to use their smarts to find solutions, but it's hard to save the world when you're trying not to be kidnapped! A greedy corporation with an eye on capturing Max seems to know their every move. It's almost like the bad guys have a spy inside the Change Makers...
17) The last tree
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Kira has never felt a drop of rain, but she carries a sea within her. In Kira's world, nothing is more precious than water, meaning nothing is more precious than Kira's gift. While the few remaining humans struggle to survive on an inhospitable Earth, the world government, desperate to control an even more desperate people, rations the few remaining natural resources, especially water. When the government, in the form of a bureaucrat named Thorne,...