Verde, Susan
Summary: With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie's kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clearer. Every morning, she rises before the sun to make the long journey to the well. Instead of a crown, she wears a heavy pot on her head to collect the water....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VEROkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: Niger, West Africa, 2077. Welcome back. This second volume is a breathtaking story that sweeps across the sands of the Sahara, flies up to the peaks of the Aïr Mountains, cartwheels into a wild megacity—you get the idea. I am the Desert Magician; I bring water where there is none. This book begins with Dikéogu Obidimkpa slowly losing his mind. Yes, that boy who can bring rain just by thinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Cussler, Clive.
Summary: Earth us a paradox - a fertile world three-quarters covered with water, yet in danger of running dry. Overuse and pollution have drained most of its fresh water, and scientist Francesca Carval's brilliant formula for desalination has vanished with her plane over South America. But when Kurt Austin and his NUMA team come across a pod of dead whales, their investigation takes them to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSSimon, Christine
Summary: "In a tiny village in Italy, the self-appointed mayor (and vacuum cleaner repairman) Signor Speranza will do anything he can to save his beloved town. When he learns that the water is going to be cut off in sixty days unless he can come up with some quick cash, he tries to boost tourism by spreading a harmless rumor that major movie star Dante Rinaldi is planning to film a movie in the village....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon &Schuster Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMPatterson, James
Summary: Max and her CMI friends attempt to use their smarts to find solutions to a water crisis, while a greedy corporation with an eye on capturing Max seems to know their every move.
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Publisher / Publication Date: JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PATMcGinty, Alice B.
Summary: Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Bajaj, Varsha
Summary: "A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAJChanter, Catherine.
Summary: "Ruth Ardingly has just been released from prison to serve out a sentence of house arrest for arson and suspected murder at her farm, The Well. Beyond its borders, some people whisper she is a witch; others a messiah. For as soon as Ruth returns to The Well, rain begins to fall on the farm. And it has not rained anywhere else in the country in over three years. Ruth and her husband Mark had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chanter 2015Simon, Christine
Summary: Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212) Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with 70,000 euros to fix the town's pipes, the water commission will shut off the water to the village and all its residents will be forced to disperse. So in a bid to boost tourism, and revenue, he spreads a harmless rumor that movie star Dante Rinaldi will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC SIMPatterson, James
Summary: "Max Einstein is your not-so-typical 12-year-old genius. It's just a day in the life of the top agent for the Change Makers Institute! A village in India is having a life-threatening crisis that only a group of kid geniuses can fix, so Max and her Change Maker friends hightail it out there. But it's hard to focus when you're trying not to be kidnapped by a greedy corporation that seems to know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019