"In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart--one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager--fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful novel."--Publisher annotation. A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress,...

Annie y Jack viajan a la década de 1870, en la casa del árbol. Al llegar, aterrizan sobre la pradera, cerca de una escuela que sólo tiene un aula. Allí conocen a la maestra, una joven adolescente, a unos niños muy simpáticos y a otro niño más grande, y peleón. ¡Pero lo más duro y aterrador todavía está por venir! ¡Un tornado! When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding...

After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home.

It's been more than 50 years since a tornado tore through a drive-in movie theater in tiny Mercer, Illinois, leaving dozens of teens -- a whole generation of Mercerites -- dead in its wake. So when another tornado touches down in the exact same spot on the anniversary of this small-town tragedy, the town is shaken. For Brenna Ortiz, Joshua Calloway, and Callie Keller, the apprehension is more than just a feeling. Though they seem to share nothing...

An angry, destructive tornado picks up an empathetic cow, and when Cow politely asks to be put down, the two enter a conversation that has some unforeseen results.