Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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[2013], Adolescent, Blink Call No: Science fiction FIC FRIESEN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 2250, water is scarce and controlled by tyrants, but when sixteen-year-old Luca descends to the domain of the Water Rats, he meets one who captures his heart and leads him to secrets about a vast conspiracy, and about himself.
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By BollaÃn, IcÃar, 1967- Laverty, Paul Gordon, Juan GarcÃa Bernal, Gael, 1978- Tosar, Luis Elejalde, Karra, 1960- Aduviri, Juan Carlos Arévalo, Raúl, 1979- Santos, Carlos Ciangherotti, Cassandra Iglesias, Alberto Catalán, Alex Hernández Zoido, Ãngel Morena Films Mandarin films S.A Alebrije Cine y Video (Firm) Vaca Films (Firm) También la Lluvia AIE (Firm) Imagec2012., Image Entertainment Call No: DVD 791.43 EVE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal, The Motorcycle Diaries) and his cynical producer Costa (Luis Tosar, The Limits of Control) arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken. Inspired by the real-life Water Wars in Bolivia in the year 2000"--Container.
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[2004]., Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC HAUTMAN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.
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c2004., Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: Mystery FIC Hautman Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.
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[2016]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books Call No: Dystopian Fic Frankel Edition: First edition. Genre: Dystopian, Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In the future, New York City is known as The Ward, and it is in trouble. Seawater flooding has devastated its streets and caused the Blight, and now a malevolent governor rules the United Metro Isles. Ren discovered a secret, magical spring of fresh water which, when drunk, can cure blight, as she found when she gave it to her dying sister, Aven. Now Aven has been kidnapped by the governor, who wants Ren to betray the location of the spring water--however, he is not Ren's only enemy.
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[2020]., General, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Historical Fiction PAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Una larga travesi?a hasta el agua, best-seller del New York Times, comienza como dos historias, que se van alternando, sobre dos nin?os de once an?os en Suda?n, una nin?a en 2008 y un nin?o en 1985. La nin?a, Nya, va a buscar agua a un estanque que esta? a dos horas de caminata desde su hogar; cada di?a, hace dos viajes hasta el estanque. El nin?o, Salva, se convierte en uno de los "nin?os perdidos" de Suda?n, refugiados que recorren a pie el continente africano en bu?squeda de sus familias y de un lugar seguro en el que vivir. Soportando todas las adversidades -la soledad, el ataque de rebeldes armados, el contacto con leones y cocodrilos asesinos-, Salva es un superviviente, y su historia se cruza con la historia de Nya de una manera sorprendente y movilizadora.
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2010., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books Call No: ADVENTURE FIC PAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
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-- At the waterworks.c1986., Primary, Scholastic Inc. Call No: E COL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scholastic hardcover.Summary Note: When Ms. Frizzle, the strangest teacher in school, takes her class on a field trip to the waterworks, everyone ends up experiencing the water purification system from the inside.
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2014., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Sixteen-year-old Lynn will do anything to protect her valuable water source, but the arrival of new neighbors forces her to reconsider her attitudes"--
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[2013]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Science Fiction FIC MCG Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Sixteen-year-old Lynn will do anything to protect her valuable water source, but the arrival of new neighbors forces her to reconsider her attitudes"--
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[2013], Katherine Tegen Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a barren world where water is a precious resource, Lynn protects a pond on her property from other people and wildlife alike, preserving every drop for her own use. When large groups of people begin approaching and leave threatening messages, however, Lynn realizes they will stop at nothing to obtain her water, and she will have to fight with all she has to protect it.
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2016., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books Call No: Dystopian FIC Frankel Edition: First paperback edition. Genre: Dystopian, Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old champion racer Renata Dane lives in a futuristic New York that has been partly submerged in what is known as the Wash Out. Her foster sister, Aven, is deathly ill from a strange Blight, thought to be caused by years of pollution. Accepting a job from the government to find a source of fresh water in what once was Manhattan, Renata discovers a web of lies about the true origin of the Blight and the Wash Out.
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[2023]., Primary, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: E Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.
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[2023]., Primary, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: E Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.
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[2016], Primary, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of one young girl's quest to bring clean drinking water to her African village.
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[2016], Primary, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: [E] Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A young girl called Princess Gie Gie lives with her family in a small village in Burkina Faso, where girls and their mothers must walk for miles each day to bring water back to their homes to be boiled for drinking and washing. For now, Princess Gie Gie wears a clay pot as her crown rather than a bejeweled tiara, but she dreams that someday her village will have clean water of its own. Inspired by model Badiel's childhood in Africa.
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[2016], Primary, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: E VER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Rating:
(21 Ratings) Summary Note: "The story of one young girl's quest to bring clean drinking water to her African village"--
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c2011., Juvenile, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a world where water has become a precious resource, Vera and her brother befriend a boy who seems to have unlimited access to water and who suspiciously disappears, prompting a dangerous search challenged by pirates, a paramilitary group, and corporations.
