Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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2002, Juvenile, Lucent Books Call No: 363.34 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Natural disastersSummary Note: This is a detailed description of avalanches which includes their types and causes as well as the prediction of their occurrence and techniques of survival and rescue afterwards.
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Primary Call No: 551.57 PET Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Natural DisastersSummary Note: "Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to avalanches. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
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c2010., Pebble Plus Call No: 551.57 848 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Earth in actionSummary Note: Introduces children to avalanches, explaining what they are, how they occur, and what kind of damage they can cause.
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c2007, Juvenile, Lerner Publications Co Call No: 363.34 9 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Disasters up closeSummary Note: Describes the devastating impact of avalanches, discussing what causes an avalanche to occur, why they are so destructive, and what can be done to stop them; and includes first-hand survivor stories and photographs of avalanche disasters.
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Primary Call No: 551.57 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to avalanches. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
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c1992, Juvenile, Carolrhoda Books Call No: 551.57 848 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Nature in actionSummary Note: Discusses different types of avalanches, how they form, where they happen, and how to keep safe when traveling in snowy mountains.
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c2005., Juvenile, Crabtree Pub. Co. Call No: 551.3 07 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Disaster alert!Summary Note: Explains how landslides and avalanches happen, describes famous examples, and includes a related experiment.
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c2005., Juvenile, Crabtree Pub. Co. Call No: 551.3 07 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Disaster alert!Summary Note: Explains how landslides and avalanches happen, describes famous examples, and includes a related experiment.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books Call No: 636.7 088609797 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follow along with Piper, a friendly border collie who came to the mountain as a smart but timid shelter dog, terrified by everything, as she confidently heads off to school on a chairlift to meet her canine classmates. Over a season they romp together through the snow, learning and practicing the skills they need to be avalanche rescue dogs and earn their rescue certification. You'll also learn the warning signs and conditions that cause an avalanche, the four types of avalanches, and the basics of avalanche safety.
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c2003, Pre-adolescent, National Geographic Society Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Mysteries in our national parks Volume: #12Summary Note: While their parents study why wolverines are disappearing from Alaska's Denali National Park, Jack and Ashley are stranded in a remote area with their mysterious new foster brother when a hit man's bullet triggers an avalanche.
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c2003., Pre-adolescent, National Geographic Society Call No: FIC SKU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Mysteries in our national parks Volume: bk. 12Summary Note: Jack, Ashley, and their foster brother are stranded when there is an avalanche.
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2003., Juvenile, Heinemann Library Call No: 551.57 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Heinemann infosearchSummary Note: This book describes the causes and effects of avalanches, case studies of past avalanches, and how they can be predicted or prevented in the future.
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c2020., Primary, Bellwether Media Call No: 551.22 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Blastoff! readers.Summary Note: This low-level text introduces how earthquakes form, the damage they cause, and how their damage can be prevented.
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2019., Juvenile, Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. Call No: Fic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "On Choosing Day, children of Adranna who reach the age of fourteen are finally eligible to undergo the tests to determine if they are worthy of bonding a frostsliver. Only one in a hundred are destined to succeed. If chosen, they will have to climb to the top of the glacier and cut a piece off for themselves, so that they may be granted the powers they've always dreamed of. When Sabira is chosen, an entire world of possibilities opens up to her. But in order to see it through, she'll have to embark on a dangerous pilgrimage to the top of the glacier. When a huge avalanche traps her on the glacier and destroys the pass, she must face up to the merciless mountain--but there are dark and fiery secrets hiding in its depths..."--Provided by the publisher.
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[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after midnight on March 1, a lightning storm struck the mountain, sending a ten-foot-high wave of snow barreling down the mountain"--Provided by publisher.
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2009., Rosen Central Call No: 551.3 07 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Natural disasters in action.Summary Note: Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduces young readers to the dangers of landslides and avalanches, and describes what causes them, explains how to predict and prevent them; and also profiles several landslides and avalanches throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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-- Landslides, slumps, and creep1997., Pre-adolescent, Franklin Watts Call No: 551.3 GOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the causes and consequences of landslides, avalanches, and other, sometimes rapid, sometimes slow, downward movements of rocks, soil, and/or snow.
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-- Avalanches2013., Pre-adolescent, Gareth Stevens Pub. Call No: 551.57 SPILSBURY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Nature's wrath.Summary Note: Examines the causes and disastrous effects of avalanches, and discusses early warning systems and how scientists study and predict avalanches.