2021 Weber Reads: Telling Our Stories, Teen

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Air Sports
Artist/Author/Cast:
Luke, Andrew
Call Number:
YP 797.5 L9545ai 2017
Description:
Airborn
Artist/Author/Cast:
Oppel, Kennet
Call Number:
YP F Oppel
Description:

Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Artist/Author/Cast:
Kamkwamba, William, and Bryan Mealer
Call Number:
HS 621.453092 K156b 2015
Description:
Breath
Artist/Author/Cast:
Napoli, Donna Jo
Call Number:
YP F Napoli
Description:

Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats.

Breathe
Artist/Author/Cast:
Crossan, Sarah
Call Number:
HS F Crossan
Description:

"In a barren land, a shimmering glass dome houses the survivors of the Switch, the period when oxygen levels plunged and the green world withered. A state lottery meant a lucky few won safety, while the rest suffocated in the thin air. And now Alina, Quinn, and Bea--an unlikely trio, each with their own agendas, their own longings and fears--walk straight into the heart of danger. With two days' worth of oxygen in their tanks, they leave the dome. What will happen on the third day?"--Provided by publisher.

Cleared for Takeoff: The Ultimate Book of Flight
Artist/Author/Cast:
White, Rowland
Call Number:
YP 629.13334 W5878c 2016
Description:

All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami helicopters to bottle rockets -- all accompanied by sensational photographs, illustrations, and diagrams.

Code Name Verity
Artist/Author/Cast:
Wein, Elizabeth
Call Number:
HS F Wein
Description:

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

The Great American Dust Bowl
Artist/Author/Cast:
Brown, Don
Call Number:
GN YP 978.032 B8776g 2013
Description:

The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.

Hurricane Child
Artist/Author/Cast:
Callender, Kacen
Call Number:
YP F Callender
Description:

Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.

Hurricane: Perspectives on Storm Disasters
Artist/Author/Cast:
Langley, Andre
Call Number:
YP 363.34922 L2838h 2015
Description:

"What is it like to witness a hurricane? This book looks at Hurricane Sandy and other major storms, using firsthand accounts to describe events and people's experiences, providing multiple perspectives from eyewitnesses, survivors, the emergency services, scientists, and the media."--Provided by publisher.

The Kite Rider
Artist/Author/Cast:
McCaughrean, Geraldine
Call Number:
YP F McCaughrean
Description:

In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.

Let the Sky Fall
Artist/Author/Cast:
Messenger, Shannon
Call Number:
HS F Messenger
Description:

Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his parents, Vane Weston, now seventeen, has no memory of that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of the wind.

Tornado: Perspectives on Tornado Disasters
Artist/Author/Cast:
Hubbard, Ben
Call Number:
YP 551.553 H8752t 2014
Description:

"What is it like to witness a tornado? This book looks at the Moore, El Reno, and other tornadoes, using firsthand accounts to describe events and people's experiences, providing multiple perspectives from eyewitnesses, survivors, the emergency services, scientists, and the media."--Provided by publisher.

The Wind Merchant
Artist/Author/Cast:
Dunlap, Ryan
Call Number:
YP F Dunlap
Description:

Out of the ashes of The Clockwork War, mankind rose above the clouds to begin anew with The Atmo Project, a group of twenty-one flying cities running off the overabundant resource that destroyed the world below. Nearly a century later, one-third of the cities have fallen from disrepair or sky pirate attacks. When fledgling wind merchant Ras Veir inadvertently disrupts the natural fuel source keeping his home city of Verdant aloft, he must fly his airship clear across Atmo to right his wrong.