Pre-K-2 Reading Activities

Elementary Hurricane Books Bibliography

Anderson, Lena. Stina. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1988

Arnold, Caroline.  El Niño.  Clarion 1999.

Barret, Judi.  Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.  Published 1982.  Accelerated Reader level 4.3/0.5 pts.

Blegvad, Lenore. Rainy Day Kate. New York: Macmillan,1987

Bodett, Tom.  Williwaw! .  Published 2000.  Accelerated Reader level: 5.7/7.0 pts.

Branley, Franklyn. Its Raining Cats and Dogs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990

Bunting, Eve.  SOS Titanic.  Harcourt 1996.

Byars, Betsy.  Tornados.  Harper 1996.

Calhoun, Mary.  Flood.  Morrow 1997.

Catherall, Ed. Exploring Weather. New York: Kingfisher Books, 1993

Chesworth, Michael. Rainy Day Dream. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992

Cole, Joanna.  The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane.  Published 1996.  Accelerated Reader level: 4.3/0.5 pts.

Cone, Patrick.  Wildfire.  Carolrhoda 1997.

Demas Bliss, Corinne.  Hurricane!  Cavendish 2000.

Duey,  Kathleen.  Blizzard: Estes Park, Colorado, 1886.  Aladdin 1998.

Evans, Lezlie. Rain Song. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995

Fields, T.S.  Missing Mountains.  Rising Moon 1999.

Freeman, Don. A Rainbow of My Own. New York: Viking Press, 1966

Ganeri, Anita Weather. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 1993

Gibbons, Gail.  Sunken Treasure.  Published 1988.  Accelerated Reader level: 4.2/0.5 pts.

Gibbons, Gail. Weather Words and What They Mean. New York: Holiday House, 1990

Gramatky, Hardie.  Little Toot.  Published 2002. Accelerated Reader level: 4.7/0.5 pts.

Greenberg, Keith Elliot.  Storm Chaser.  Blackbirch 1997

Gregory, Kristina.  Earthquake at Dawn.  Hartcourt 1992

Ingalls Wilder, Laura.  The Long WinterHarper 1961.

Hesse, Karen.  Out of the Dust.  Published 1997.  Accelerated Reader level: 5.3/3.0 pts.

Hest, Amy. In the Rain with Baby Duck. Cambridge, Mass; Candlewick Press, 1995

Hopping, Lorraine Jean.  Clima Borrascoso. Huracanes!.  Published 1999. Accelerated Reader level: 3.8/0.5 points

Hopping, LorraineWild Weather: Lighting.  Scholastic 1999

Houston, James A.  Frozen Fire: A Tale of Courage.  Published 1977.  Accelerated Reader level: 4.9/5.0 pts.

Kehret, Peg.  The Volcano Disaster.  Minstrel 1998.

Kjelgaard, James Arthur.  Stormy.  Published 1978.  Accelerated Reader level:
6.9/6.0 pts.

Kostyal, K.M.  Trial by Ice.  National Geographic 1999.

Kudlilinski, Kathleen.  Earthquake! A Story of Old  San Francisco.  Puffin 1995

Lesser, Carolyn.  Storm on the Desert.  Harcourt 1997.

Lauber, Patricia.  Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens.  Aladdin 1993

Lowell, Susan.  I am Lavina Cumming.  Milkweed 1993

Magnuson Beil, Karen.  Fire in Their Eyes.  Harcourt 1999.
Martin, Bill and John Archambault. Listen to the Rain. New York: Henry Holt and Co.,1988

McCloskey, Robert.  Time of Wonder.  Published 1957. Accelerated Reader level: 5.1/0.5 pts.

McDonald, Megan.  Beezy. Published 1997. Accelerated Reader level: 4.3/0.5 pts.

Rosada, Maria.  Blizzard!  And Ice Storms.  Simon 1999.

Rose, Sally.  El Niño! And La Niña.  Simon 1999.

Ruckman, Ivy.  Night of the Twisters.  Harper 1986.

Ruckman, Ivy.   No Way Out.  Harper 1988.

Sabuda, Robert.  The Blizzard’s Robe.  Antheum 1999.

Scheer, Julian. Rain Makes Applesauce. New York: Holiday House, 1964

Shaw, Nancy.  Sheep on a Ship.  Published 1989.  Accelerated Reader level: 1.1/0.5 pts.

Shulevitz, Uri. Rain Rain Rivers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969

Simmon, Seymour.  Supper Storms.  Published 2002.  Accelerated Reader level: 3.0/0.5 pts.

Simmon, Seymour.  Tornadoes.  Morrow 1999

Souza, Dorothy M.  Hurricanes.  Published 1996. Accelerated Reader level: 5.9/1.0 pts

Spilsbury, Louise.  Howling Hurricanes.   Published  2004. Accelerated Reader level: 5.6/ 1.0 pts.

Steele, Philip.  Rocking and Rolling.  Candlewick 1997

Stevens, Carla.  Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm.  Puffin 1985

Tripp, Valerie.  Samantha Saves the Day: A Summer Story. Published 1998. Accelerated Reader level: 3.8/1.0 pts.

White, Nancy.  Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm: A Book About Weather. Published 2000.  Accelerated Reader level: 3.4/0.5 pts.

Vogel, Carole G.  Shock Waves Through Los Angeles.  Little 1996.

Wisniewski, Davis.  Rain Player.  Clarion 1991

Zolotow, Charlotte.  When the Wind Stops. Published 1995.  Accelerated Reader level: 3.2/0.5 pts.