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Language
English
Description
"The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90°F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset and Dunlap
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Charlie and Lola are trying their best to beat the summer heat, but things go from hot to boiling when Lola refuses to talk to Arnold Wolf after he accidentally knocks her ice cream to the ground and won't apologize. Lola says that she will never forgive him. Can Charlie help Lola change her mind?
3) Heating
Series
Physics essentials volume 065
Publisher
Bozeman Science
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this video lesson, Paul Andersen explains how heating is the transfer of energy (heat) from a warmer object to a cooler object. Heat can be transferred through conduction, convection, and radiation. At the microscopic level, conduction results from the collision of particles and therefore the transfer of kinetic energy.--Publisher.
4) Heating
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Discusses heating, and examines what it is, where fuels and electricity come from, and how heaters and radiators work
5) Wet dog!
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A dog's attempts to cool off on a hot day get him into trouble with a series of people and finally lead him to interrupt a country wedding
Series
Chemistry essentials volume 047
Publisher
Bozeman Science
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this video lesson, Paul Andersen explains how energy can be transferred from warmer objects to colder objects through heat. Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance. When two objects are in contact, collisions between the particles will transfer energy from the warmer object in the form of heat.--Publisher.
9) Hot and cold
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
The difference between "hot" and "cold" is demonstrated through bright illustrations and accessible text. Featuring strong picture-text correlation, this book allows early learners to explore these antonyms independently and build strong vocabularies as they read. On each page, beginning readers discover dinosaurs interacting with temperature—including hot cocoa and cold ice cream. These antonyms are highlighted in a concluding graphic organizer
...10) Heat wave
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Abigail, Ralphie, and the other citizens of Lumberville struggle to endure a week-long heat wave
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amanda Pig and her family and friends try to find different ways to beat the heat. It is the hottest day of the summer, and Amanda has never been so hot in her life. Her knees, her nose, even her hair ribbons are hot and droopy. How can a little pig stay cool? It's not easy, but Amanda is determined to beat the heat. She tries everything. Some help, but some make it even worse-including sticky purple ice pops that drip! These four funny chapters...
Series
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1997, ©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
Elayne, Aviendha, and Mat work to restore the world's natural weather, while Egwene gathers a group of female channelers and Rand confronts the dread Forsaken Sammael
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the planet warms, a ripple effect takes place: greenhouse gas emissions create warmer weather, which leads to heat waves, which then contribute to forest fires. Taking a hopeful yet realistic approach, this book encourages readers to understand the relationship between intensifying heat and disaster. It discusses current scientific research, shows examples of heat waves and forest fires all over the world, and encourages citizen engagement with...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why,...
17) Summer
Author
Series
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Under a burning sun on the dry grassland, animals ranging from a tiny field mouse to a large elephant fight over bit of shade until they learn a better way
18) Heat rises
Author
Series
Nikki Heat mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the third book of the New York Times bestselling Nikki Heat series, following HEAT WAVE and NAKED HEAT, Richard Castle's new thrilling mystery continues the story of NYPD Homicide Detective, Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City's top homicide squads. In what's sure to be another smash sensation by blockbuster author Richard Castle, readers will once again follow Nikki...
19) Raging Heat
Author
Series
Nikki Heat mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
An illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook. When he decides to work the case with Heat as his next big story, Nikki is at first happy to have him ride-along. Yes, she must endure Rook's usual wild conspiracy speculations and adolescent wisecracks, but after reuniting following his...
20) High heat
Author
Series
Nikki Heat mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband, magazine writer Jameson Rook. Meanwhile, Heat is haunted by a fleeting glimpse of someone she swears is her mother... a woman who has been dead for nearly twenty years" -- provided by publisher
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