Burlington Public Library

"Andrew Carnegie funded fifty-nine public libraries in Kansas in the early 20th century, but it was frontier women who organized waffle suppers, minstrel shows, and women's baseball games to buy books to fill them. Now, a century later, Angelina returns to her father's hometown of New Hope to complete her dissertation on the Carnegie libraries, just as Traci and Gayle arrive in town, Traci as an artist-in-residence at the renovated Carnegie Arts Center...

Easy-to-read text contains facts, figures, and a close up view of tornadoes.

Introduces tornadoes describing their characteristics, origins, effects, safety tips, and more.

What causes tornadoes? How do scientists predict and prepare for them? Discover the answers to these questions and more. --

"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about how to survive a tornado. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--

Tornadoes swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awesome special effects and scientists pursuing the most destructive weatherfronts to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley.

Overturned cars. Destroyed houses. Snapped power lines. The powerful winds of a tornado can cause a devastating amount of damage in a short time. Get an up-close look at how tornadoes form and learn about some of history's worst twisters.

Driven by the dying wish of his wife, Elizabeth, to find their firstborn son, John Baxter sets about the search of a lifetime. His prayer? That her wish would be fulfilled before the upcoming Baxter family reunion. One strange turn follows another, but John confides in a new friend and continues to look for his son. When the answers finally come, they shake John to his core. Will he agree to walk away and keep the secret of a lifetime, or will he...

"Twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed in a tornado, and in the aftermath of the storm, she begins to develop feelings for another girl at school"--

An illustrated episode from "The Wizard of Oz," in which Dorothy, a young girl living in Kansas with her Uncle Henry and Auntie Em, gets trapped inside the house during a cyclone and lands in a strange new world.