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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Ada has never left her family's one-room apartment. Her bitter mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. But when her little brother, Jamie is going to be shipped out of London to escape World War II, Ada doesn't waste a minute: she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take in two kids. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read,...
2) Carrie's war
Author
Publisher
Dells Pub
Pub. Date
1973
Language
English
Description
Carrie and her younger brother spend World War II as evacuees in a small Welsh village where Carrie, upset by a family feud, commits an act that haunts her for thirty years.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the shy, irresistible young woman who will call them both her own. As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America. There,...
4) Kim/Kimi
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Despite a warm relationship with her mother, stepfather, and half brother, sixteen-year-old Kim feels the need to find answers about the Japanese American father she never knew.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. She wants only Pamela. Three golden years pass as the Second World War rages on. Then...
Author
Series
Natural hazard research working paper volume 27
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Institute]
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 128
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Increased coastal development, tremendous population growth, and high evacuation rates contributed to an evacuation that involved an unprecedented number of people, traffic problems, and level of public criticism.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A princess is sent away to safety during World War II, where she falls in love, and is lost forever. As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, causing massive destruction and widespread fear, the King and Queen choose to quietly send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a trusted noble family in the country. Despite her fiery, headstrong nature, the princess’s fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently." --
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 39
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Author
Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Texas is experiencing its worst season of wildfires in a decade, forcing police chief Josie Gray to evacuate the citizens of Artemis. Not everyone makes it out alive, however. In the fire's wake, she discovers the body of someone who never left town, lying dead in the house of a local country music singer. Beside the body lies a syringe carrying traces of heroin. It seems as if the deceased nodded off and then missed the evacuation. But as Josie...
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 178
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A train collision in Graniteville, S.C. ruptured one of the train's tank cars, which was carrying 90 tons of chlorine, sending a plume of chlorine gas across the northern portion of town resulting in death, injuries and an ordered evacuation. The Graniteville experience provided an opportunity to assess preparedness for and response to hazardous materials spills.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
16) Manzanar
Author
Publisher
Times Bks
Pub. Date
[c1988]
Language
English
Description
Ansel Adams photographs, an essay by John Hersey, and historical commentary document the day-to-day life in a World War II internment-camp
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 172
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this research was to identify current evacuation procedures for the nursing home population and document the baseline status of facilities and the procedures utilized in evacuations.
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 177
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this research was to identify current evacuation procedures for the nursing home population and document the baseline status of facilities and the procedures utilized in evacuations.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Alisak, Prany, and Noi--three orphans united by devastating loss--must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky....
20) Evacuation order
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sam lives alone with his mom and their dog in the idyllic seaside town of Santa Bonita. His father died when Sam was young, but his best friend Marco has been helping recreate his dad's old photos as part of a memorial project. One particularly warm October day, however, Sam smells something faint from far away. It's the scent of smoke. An unexpected southern California wildfire is whipping ferociously toward town. Sam, Marco, and...