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2) The sunhat
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Rosa has a wonderful hat that fits her just right, but when the wind blows it away the hat shelters a wide variety of desert creatures from a storm.
3) Dust storm!
Author
Series
Survivor diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Separated from their group during a sixth-graders geocaching trip, Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught in a dust storm in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips.
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice. Main series volume 7
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sophie loves activity camp ... but is terrified of insects. It's so bad that she won't go into the tent on her own, just in case something flies at her, or she steps on a creepie-crawlie. But when she's given a compass by one of the other boys on the campsite, Sophie is magically transported to the desert on an adventure where they're impossible to avoid! With the help of survival expert Bear Grylls as her guide, she will learn how to withstand the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
10) Desert voices
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Desert inhabitants describe the beauty of their home.
11) Toning the sweep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Appears on list
Description
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
12) Lucky Breaks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.
14) Deathwatch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
15) Tumble
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The rhyming text follows a lone tumbleweed in its journey across a desert teeming with life.
16) Hero at the fall
Author
Series
Rebel of the sands volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
"When gunslinging Amani Al'Hiza escaped her dead-end town, she never imagined she'd join a revolution, let alone lead one. But after the bloodthirsty Sultan of Miraji imprisoned the Rebel Prince Ahmed in the mythical city of Eremot, she doesn't have a choice. Armed with only her revolver, her wits, and her untameable Demdji powers, Amani must rally her skeleton crew of rebels for a rescue mission through the unforgiving desert to a place that, according...
19) Desert song
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A family sings and plays music on a desert evening, in harmony with the nearby wildlife and the ancestors above."--