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Magic tree house volume 30
Lexile measure:
470L
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English
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"Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history"--
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Publisher:
Random House Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
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"Track the facts about the Alamo, the Galveston hurricane, and the great state of Texas! When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #30: Hurricane Heroes in Texas, they had lots of questions. Why is Texas called the Lone StarState? What was the Alamo? When was the Galveston hurricane? Why was it so terrible? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about Texas. Filled with up-to-date...
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Series:
I survived volume 21
Language:
English
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More than a century later, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is still America's deadliest disaster. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving the horrible event churns with page-turning action and bold hope. The city of Galveston, Texas, was booming. Perched on an island off the southern coast of Texas, Galveston had been founded in the 1830s. By 1900, it was Texas's richest and most important city. Boats loaded up with American cotton and wheat...
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Publisher:
Taylor Trade Publishing
Pub. Date:
2002
Language:
English
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In the early 1820s, eleven-year-old Georgina is excited to be moving to the wild Texas frontier with her family. But those dreams are dashed when their ship sinks during a storm. Georgie finds herself marooned alone, scared, and soaking wet on the Texas coast inhabited only by Karankawa natives. She doesnít think things can get any worse, but then sheís rescuedóby pirates led by Jean Laffite! This book in the Lone Star Heroines series brings to...
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Publisher:
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
Description:
The endearing hero of many other Gaston books is swept up out of his comfortable bayou lair by a hurricane and dropped in the plains of West Texas. Taken in by a group of rough-looking cowboys, Gaston begins his western adventure, one that leads him through the tribulations facing a greenhorn cowboy determined to ride broncos, tame mustangs, bulldog steers, and lasso and brand mavericks. Fetchingly decked out in his ten-gallon Stetson and cowboy boots,...
6. Busted Flush
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Publisher:
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2008
Language:
English
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Rights to develop Wild Cards for TV have been acquired by Universal Cable Productions, the team that brought you The Magicians and Mr. Robot, with the co-editor of Wild Cards, Melinda Snodgrass as executive producer. In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent...
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Publisher:
Brazoria House Books
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
The best Destiny can do is a fake relationship with her swoon-worthy bodyguard? Calypso Elliot creates chaos wherever she goes, a hurricane in a handbasket who came to Superstition Springs to restart her life, not attract the attention of a stalker. The last thing she expects is for Garrison Rockwell to jump at the chance to play her fake boyfriend-slash-bodyguard. He attends to her every need. Takes care of her and her problems. It's so…sexy. Ex-Navy...
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Publisher:
Ginger Booth
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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"The storms before the calm. Climate catastrophe looms while they're making other plans. Freedom dies, and the United States begins to unravel. These four prequels introduce characters from the Calm Act and Feral America series"--
"Civilly disobedient: Tech whisperer Dee Baker attends a political rally in Philadelphia, to find out what news the government is so desperate to hide"--
"Dust of Kansas: A new Dust Bowl deepens. Race riots and refugees...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
Like most Texas police officers BC CARNOT, has encountered his fair share of monsters - all the human kind - at least until now. When the body of a game warden, surrounded by the foot print of extinct wolves and ritualistic magic, is found in the bayou, BC Carnot must confront his worst fear that he didn't solve his wife and brother's murders two years ago even though he killed the suspect. How could a dead man commit murder? BC, the new chief of...
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Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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"In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross. Based on a true story. The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage--except six-year-old Hester,...