BOOKS ABOUT WEATHER
Title: Changes in the Wind: Earth's Shifting Climate
Author: Facklam, Margery and Howard Facklam
Illustrator: Facklam, Paul
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Year: 1986
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: INF
Description: Examines the factors causing changes in the earth's climate and discusses predictions for the future.
Topics: Weather
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Title: Chinook!
Author: Tunnell, Michael O.
Illustrator: Root, Barry
Publisher: Tambourine
Year: 1993
Grade Level: 3-4
Genre: MF; PB
Description: Mr. Andy tells Thad and Annie some tales about the spectacular effects of chinooks, hot winter winds that suddenly spring up and cause dramatic changes in the temperature.
Topics: Weather -- Winds; Tall Tales
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Title: The Cloud Book
Author: de Paola, Tomie
Illustrator: de Paola, Tomie
Publisher: Holiday House
Year: 1975
Grade Level: 3-4
Genre: INF; PB
Description: This book presents ten clouds and tells about their shapes and the ways in which they forecast weather.
Topics: Clouds; Weather
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Title: ComeaTide
Author: Lyon, George Ella
Illustrator: Gammell, Stephen
Publisher: Orchard
Year: 1990
Grade Level: K-2
Genre: CRF
Description: A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.
Topics: Floods; Weather; Country Life
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Title: Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat: Superstitions and Other Beliefs
Author: Schwartz, Alvin
Illustrator: Rounds'Glen
Publisher: Lippincott
Year: 1974
Grade Level: 3-4
Genre: INF
Description: Explains superstitions about such topics as love and marriage, money, ailments, travel, the weather, and death.
Topics: Superstition; Folklore
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Title: The Long Winter
Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Illustrator: Williams, Garth
Publisher: Harper & Row
Year: 1940
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: HF
Description: After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
Topics: Frontier and Pioneer Life; Family Life; Blizzards
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Title: Storms
Author: Simon, Seymour
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Publisher: Morrow
Year: 1989
Grade Level: 5-6
Genre: INF; PB
Description: Describes the atmospheric conditions which create thunderstorms, hailstorms, tornadoes, lightning, and hurricanes and how violent weather affects people.
Topics: Storms; Weather
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