Extra Credit Book Report
Use resources in library to answer these 2 questions.
1. Does this book fit into the curriculum topic? If so, how? If not, what would you change (add or subtract) about
it to make it more relevant?
2. How does this book expand upon the topic (what does it cover that wasn't covered in class) or how does this
book detract (or distract) from the topic?
Report must be one page long double spaced.
Here is the list of books available in the library.
Lambkin Library Atmosphere and Weather Sources in Print
Non-Fiction:
A Field Guide to the Invisible
Perils of a Restless Planet: Scientific Perspectives on Natural Disasters
Oceans, Poles and Airmen: The First Flights Over Wide Waters and Desolate Ice
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Nr. Everest Disaster
To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
Floods, Famine and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
Water: Almost enough for Everyone
The Miracle Planet (e.g. Chapter 4: Patterns in the Air)
Atlas of the Evolving Earth (e.g. Vol. 1: The Evolving Atmosphere and Chemical Cycles)
Weather (published by The Nature Company Guides)
Encyclopedia of Weather
Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather
The Handy Weather Answer Book
The Facts on File Dictionary of Weather and Climate
An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate
Rainbows, Mirages, and Sundogs: The Sky as a Source of Wonder
The Weather Sourcebook: Your One-Stop Resource for Everything You Need to Feed Your Weather
Habit
The Undaunted Garden: Planting for Weather-Resilient Beauty
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice
Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration
El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker
Isaac’s Storm: A Man, A time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
How Should the World Respond to Natural Disasters?
Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints
Tornado Alley: Monster Storms of the Great Plains
The Coming Global Superstorm
The Dust Bowl: Great Disasters Reforms and Ramifications
Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book
Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones
Fiction:
Servants of the Map (short stories by Andrea Barrett linked by the theme of scientific theory and
discovery)
The Air We Breathe (a novel by Andrea Barrett about a place where tuberculosis victims convalesce
with the hope that the air there will heal their infected lungs)
Solar Storms (a novel by Linda Hogan about Native Americans who advocate for the preservation of
traditional values with respect to the earth, water, plants, and nature in the face of destruction brought
about by the clash of cultures)
The Final Warning (a novel by James Patterson about teenagers who are asked to help environmental
scientists study global warming)
Rainwater (a novel by Sandra Brown about people in a community affected by the ravages of the Dust
Bowl)
Atlantis Found (a novel by Clive Cussler about the discovery of civilizations destroyed by cataclysmic,
climate-changing events on earth)
Galactic North (short stories by Alastair Reynolds set in a fictional, hostile universe)