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"When thirteen-year-olds T.E. and Audrey meet at a wilderness camp in the desert, they think their quirks are enough to prevent them from ever having friends. But as they trek through the challenging and unforgiving landscape, they learn that they each have what it takes to make the other whole"--
4) Dune
Author
Series
Dune chronicles volume 1
Language
Español
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"En el desértico planeta Arrakis, el agua es el bien más preciado y llorar a los muertos, el símbolo de máxima prodigalidad. Pero algo hace de Arrakis una pieza estratégica para los intereses del Emperador, las Grandes Casas y la Cofradía, los tres grandes poderes de la galaxia. Arrakis es el único origen conocido de la melange, preciosa especia y uno de los bienes más codiciados del universo. Al duque Leto Atreides se le asigna el...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Cactus and Flower spend their days in the desert, side by side. They grow, slowly but surely. Then one day, Flower loses a petal. Cactus and Flower know what this means. But they know, too, that this is the way life goes: Slowly but surely, petals will fall, and new buds will bloom"--
7) Lucky breaks
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Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 2
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English
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Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
In the heart of the singing desert, the people are fading from the world. Mothers bear few live children, the warriors and wardens are hard-pressed to protect those who remain, and the vash'ai - the great cats who have called the people kithren for as long as there have been stories - bond with fewer humans each year. High above, the Sun Dragon sings a song of life and love while far below, the Earth Dragon slumbers as she has since the beginning...
11) Tumble
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Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The rhyming text follows a lone tumbleweed in its journey across a desert teeming with life.
14) Dust storm!
Author
Series
Survivor diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Separated from their group during a sixth-graders geocaching trip, Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught in a dust storm in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips.
15) Meerkat madness
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
Mimi, Skeema, and Little Dream all love to hear their uncle's tales about his glory days in Upworld, but they are never quite sure of how true they are until they find a mysterious object that leads them on adventures of their own.
16) Deadzone
Author
Series
Horizon volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Seven of the eight survivors of the Aero Horizon crash have made it out of the deadly jungle, but the desert into which they have emerged has its own dangers, and they have very little food or water left and no sign of civilization anywhere--meanwhile, one of the survivors is changing, and that may be the greatest threat of all.
19) Oasis
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Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
When a sandstorm wipes away the archeological dig and camp, Alif and the others from the camp find themselves lost in the desert, until a mysterious oasis appears.
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