Books in Spanish
For Independent Reading
VERY EASY
- El libro de las nubes (The Cloud Book)
- by Tomie dePaola
(Science/Health)
Holiday
Features the ten most common clouds and explains how they are formed.
- Don Gil y el paraguas mágico (Don Gil and the Magic Umbrella)
- by Mercé Company
A giant keeps the clouds away, but when Don Gil opens his magic umbrella, it rains.
- Un día de nieve (The Snowy Day)
- by Ezra Jack Keats
(Multicultural)
A little boy enjoys a playing in the snow.
- El muñeco de nieve (The Snowman)
- by Raymond Briggs
In this fantasy, a boy becomes friends with a snowman.
EASY
- El mundo del clima (The World of Weather)
- by David Adler
(Science/Health)
A question-and-an-answer format is used to explain basic facts about weather.
- ¿Qué hace llover? (What Makes It Rain?)
- by Susan Mayes
(Science/Health)
Provides basic information on rain clouds and rain.
- Las cuatro estaciones (The Four Seasons Series)
- by J. M. Parramón
(Science/Health)
In these books -- Spring (La primavera), Summer (El verano), Autumn (El otoño), and Winter (El invierno), students learn how weather changes from season to season.
AVERAGE
- Huracanes y tornados (Hurricanes and Tornadoes)
- by Norman S. Barrett
(Science/Health)
Explains the causes of hurricanes and tornadoes and how to protect oneself from them.
- Las tormentas (Storms)
- by Jenny Wood
(Science/Health)
Explanations of the formation and evolution of storms.
- El hombre de la lluvia (The Rain Man)
- by María Puncel
A lighthouse keeper has the power and responsibility of controlling the rain.
- La gata gatona (The Mousehole Cat)
- by Antonia Barber
A fisherman and his cat Mowser sail out into a storm to save their village from starvation.
- La sequía (The Drought)
- by Jesús Zatón
After a long, dry summer, the animals wonder if the rain will ever come.
CHALLENGING
- Experimentos atmosféricos (Weather Experiments)
- by Vera Webster
Childrens
Color photographs illustrate easy-to-follow weather experiments.
For Teacher Read Aloud
- La rosa del desierto (The Desert Rose)
- by Carlos Puerto
When Rosa's father disappears in the desert in a sand storm, a group of nomads help her search for him.
Books in English
(English Language Development)
For Shared or Independent Reading
VERY EASY
- Come a Tide
- by George Ella Lyon
Orchard
Four days and nights of rain cause a river to overflow its banks.
- The Flood That Came to Grandma's House
- by Linda Stallone
(Social Studies)
Upshur
One family's true experiences when Hurricane Agnes struck.
- Geoffrey Groundhog Predicts the Weather
- by Bruce Koscielniak
Houghton
Because of blinding television lights, Geoffrey Groundhog is unable to see his shadow on Groundhog Day.
EASY
- Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
- by Margaret K. Wetterer
Kate must warn the train engineer that a flood has washed out the bridge.
- Hurricane
- by David Wiesner
Clarion
A tree downed by a hurricane becomes a source of imaginative play for two boys.
- The Big Storm
- by Bruce Hiscock
(Science/Health)
Atheneum
The author explores geography and weather in recounting the storm of April 1982.
AVERAGE/CHALLENGING
- The Magic School Bus® Inside a Hurricane
- by Joanna Cole
(Science/Health)
Scholastic
The Magic School Bus gives Ms. Frizzle and her students a close-up look at a hurricane from land, air, and sea.
- The Stranger
- by Chris Van Allsburg
Houghton
An injured man that Farmer Bailey brings home to recover seem to have a mysterious influence on the weather.
- Weather: Poems for All Seasons
- by Lee Bennett Hopkins
A collection of weather poems from Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Valerie Worth, and others.
- It's Raining Cats and Dogs: All Kinds of Weather and Why We Have It
- by Franklyn Branley
(Science/Health)
Houghton
A collection of weather facts, folklore, and scientific experiments makes learning about the weather fun.
- Blizzard
- by Christopher Lampton
(Science/Health)
Millbrook
Describes the development and destructive force of these severe winter storms.
- The Day It Rained Forever: A Story of the Johnstown Flood
- by Virginia T. Cross
Puffin
When torrential rains cause a dam to overflow, the disaster affects Christina and her family.
For Teacher Read Aloud
- The Storm
- by Marc Harshman
Cobblehill
With a tornado approaching, Jonathan, confined to a wheelchair, wonders how he will get to safety.
- The Year of No More Corn
- by Helen Kettemen
Orchard
Old Grampa tells tall tales about the spring rains in Indiana in 1928.
- Rain Player
- by David Wisniewski
(Multicultural)
Clarion
A Mayan boy must defeat the Rain God in a ball game to save his people from disaster.