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1) Drought
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Ruby's blood holds the secret to the Water that keeps her and her fellow Congregants alive and enriches Darwin West, who has enslaved them for two centuries, but when her romance with an Overseer, Ford, brings her freedom in the modern world, she faces a terrible choice.
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"After a storm in her town, Vivi and her classmates volunteer to help clean up at the beach. When they arrive, the beach looks different from their last visit. Where did the sand dunes and tide pools go? Along with her classmates, Vivi learns about the forces of wind and water--and how those forces constantly change the world!"--
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Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.
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Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
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Middle School Project Lit Titles
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
Project Lit - Full List
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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.
8) Thirst
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"A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone. Minni lives in the poorest part of Mumbai, where access to water is limited to a few hours a day and the communal taps have long lines. Lately, though, even that access is threatened by severe water shortages and thieves who are stealing this precious commodity--an act that Minni accidentally witnesses one night. Meanwhile, in the high-rise building where she just started...
10) Water can be
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"This picture book poetically explores the many things water can be--from home maker and ship breaker to cloud fluffer and fire snuffer. Backmatter provides additional explanations."--
11) The water hole
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As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.
12) Water dance
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Water speaks of its existence in such forms as storm clouds, mist, rainbows, and rivers. Includes factual information on the water cycle.
17) Water, water
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An exploration of water for young readers who are fascinated by fountains, puddles, faucets, and other wet things.
18) Round the garden
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Traces the journey of a tear as it falls to the ground, evaporates, reappears as rain, and waters a garden to make an onion grow to produce more tears.
19) This is the rain
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Cumulative text describes how water falls from the clouds as rain and eventually makes its way to the sea.