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On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, below; told in the voices of six children and many others this is the story of the ordinary people of the town, their losses and their survival--and of the bitter aftermath when those for whom the dam was built denied all responsibility for the shoddy dam...
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Saint Louis Armstrong Beach is enjoying life in New Orleans, playing clarinet for the tourists in his spare time, accompanied by Shadow, a local stray dog. When Hurricane Katrina approaches, Saint faces unexpected challenges in trying to rescue Shadow.
6) Come a tide
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A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.
8) Mean waters
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After Tom saves a man from drowning, he's afraid to continue to swim and canoe the rivers that he and Billy love, but he must overcome his fear if Billy is to be saved from the flood.
9) No way out
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Hiking along the Virgin River in Utah, nineteen-year-old Amy, her fiance, and four friends battle a flashflood.
12) Flood alert
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A young squirrel and rabbit trick a cat into rescuing their town from a flood.
15) The leaky story: a fun-filled adventure into the power of the imagination and the magic of books
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A book sits abandoned on a living room shelf. While the Blossburn family happily gets on with other things like watching TV and playing video games, the book aches to be read. The longer it sits abandoned, the more it aches. At last the book can't take it any longer. Slowly it starts to swell. Then it starts to leak At first it's only a small trickle, but eventually the Blossburns can no longer ignore the octopus, crabs and other marine life that...
19) Floodland
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After global warming causes the sea to rise until cities in England become islands, ten-year-old Zoe goes on a harrowing solitary boat journey to search for her parents.
20) Rising water
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Tracy, her brother, and the new animal care volunteer at the Jefferson Science Center travel by boat to feed a dog stranded by flooding, and end up having a full day of dangerous adventures, which give them new perspectives about themselves and about each other.
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