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"As the owner of Miracle Books, Nora Pennington figures all the wet weather this spring is at least good for business. The local inns are packed with stranded travelers, and among them Nora finds both new customers and a new friend, the sixty-something Sheldon, who starts helping out at the store. Since a little rain never hurt anyone, Nora rides her bike over to the flea market one sodden day and buys a bowl from Danny, a Cherokee potter. It'll make...
3) The taking
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Molly and Neil Sloan awake to see golden rain falling. In their remote California mountain town, they learn from their television of enormous waterspouts and blizzards around the globe; then, the television ceases, as do all other forms of communication with the outside world. The Sloans are left, together with their neighbors, in the midst of a purple fog, disturbed by a threat they cannot identify or understand. Together they discover that the world...
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"It's a mad dash for shelter as rain sweeps into an urban neighborhood. Where to go? The subway! It's the perfect place to wait out the wind and weather. Strangers share smiles and umbrellas and take delight in the experience of a city thunderstorm."-- Dust jacket.
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 7
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Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do.
7) Watersong
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"A fox's journey to take shelter from a rainstorm, told entirely in onomatopoeia"--
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"With global warming out of control, large swathes of North America have been struck by famine and drought and are now known as the Desert...Jesse lives alone, far from civilization. Once, he too made rain, but he stopped when his abilities caused fatalities, bringing down not just rain but scorpions, strange snakes and spiders. When his daughter Ash inherited this tainted gift, Jesse did his best to stop her...As the storms she conjures become more...
10) One rainy day
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A pig and various other animals crowd under a tree to escape the rain.
11) The rain stomper
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When it begins to rain and storm on the day of her big parade, Jazmin stomps, shouts, and does all she can think of to drive the rain away.
12) Rain
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The animals of the African savanna use their senses to predict and then enjoy the rain.
14) Olga the cloud
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Olga the cloud's wonderful day comes to an end when, after being chased off the moon where she was trying to nap, she has a terrible time finding the right place to make some rain.
15) The body falls
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April in Florida and Ben O'Keeffe is enjoying balmy temperatures, working the last few days of a six-month stint with her old law firm. A week later she returns to Glendara, Inishowen where a charity cycle race is taking place. But it starts to rain, causing the cyclists to postpone the start of their event and stay overnight in the town. But the rain doesn't stop; it increases to become relentless, torrential. In the middle of the night Sergeant...
16) The puddle
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A boy sets out to sail his boat in a puddle and is joined by a frog, a turtle, an alligator, a pig, and an elephant.
17) Umbrella
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Momo eagerly waits for a rainy day so she can use the rain boots and umbrella she received on her third birthday.
18) Come on, rain!
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Batavia Public Library Wonderbooks - YOUTH
OBD Mother's Day (May) - YOUTH
OBD Summer Picture Books - YOUTH
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OBD Mother's Day (May) - YOUTH
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A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat. "Come on, Rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Then the clouds roll in and the rain pours. And Tess, her friends, and their mothers join in together in a rain dance to celebrate the shower that renews both body and spirit.
20) Raindrop, plop!
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A young girl and her dog find many things to count on a rainy day, both as they play outside and after they come home to a warm, dry house.