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Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On July 26, 2003, mountain-climber Rod Liberal was nearing the summit of Grand Teton Mountain in Wyoming. As Rod clung to the side of a granite cliff, he saw dark clouds rolling toward him. Suddenly, there was a burst of light as a bolt of lightning struck his chest and blew him off the mountain. Attached to the cliff by a rope, he swung in the air thousands of feet above the ground. Would Rod be able to hold on until rescue rangers arrived to save...
2) Lightning
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations explore lightning, explaining what it is, the different types, safety issues, and more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.
Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance. She even believes she wants it that way. Then one day she utters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by...
Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance. She even believes she wants it that way. Then one day she utters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by...
Author
Series
Magic school bus science chapter book volume 14
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
92 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Keesha and the rest of Ms. Frizzle's class, after a boring lesson about weather, are gearing up for an exciting trip through the world of electricity when they collectively become a bolt of lightning.
Author
Series
Why books volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
[18] p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Answers, in simple text and illustrations, some basic questions about the weather including why lightning strikes and why rainbows appear.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Chen's parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen's quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Author
Series
Heroes in training volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Aladdin hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
100 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped by the terrible Titans, merciless giants who enjoy snacking on humans, and when, in self-defense, he pulls a magical thunderbolt from a stone, he begins an adventure to rescue his fellow Olympians from the evil Cronus.
11) Lightning
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Edition
Rev. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
30 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text explore the natural phenomenon of lightning.
12) High voltage
Publisher
Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp. LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An emerging rock band, managed by industry vet Jimmy Kleen, strike a deal with record executive Rick Roland. Things take a sinister turn when the band's lead singer, Rachel, is struck by lightning and killed. Rachel is brought back to life, but she is different from before. Lightning courses through her veins and she uses her new strange electrical powers to drain the life from men, turning it into electrifying stage performances, but just how far...
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High school senior Carson Phillips was destined for bigger things than his close-minded small town could ever offer. He was on that path, but was suddenly killed by a bolt of lightning in his school parking lot. Demonstrating that life is what happens while you're busy planning your future, Carson recounts the last few weeks of his life via witty, insightful flashbacks, including a blackmail scheme targeting the popular kids in school that he concocts...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[34] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on Benjamin Franklin's role as an inventor of whimsical gadgets and practical contraptions, with an emphasis on his experiment of flying a kite during a rainstorm.
16) Struck
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a major earthquake devastates Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old Mia wants only to take care of her younger brother and traumatized mother, but two fanatical doomsday cults vie for her powers, drawn from the multiple lightning strikes she has experienced.
17) Behind every lie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eva Hansen wakes in the hospital after being struck by lightning and discovers her mother, Kat, has been murdered. Eva was found unconscious down the street. She can't remember what happened but the police are highly suspicious of her. Determined to clear her name, Eva heads from Seattle to London--Kat's former home--for answers. But as she unravels her mother's carefully held secrets, Eva soon realizes that someone doesn't want her to know the truth....
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