Across the desert by Bowling, Dusti 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2022)

BTSB #: 140451 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG F&P: Z

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Rescues - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Deserts - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Drug abuse - Fiction Aircraft accidents - Fiction Arizona - Fiction

Summary: While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.

Cactus and Flower : a book about life cycles by Williamson, Sarah 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 953176 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
F&P: K

Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Cactus - Fiction Flowers - Fiction Life cycles (Biology) - Fiction Deserts - Fiction Friendship - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Dust storm! Book 4 [Survivor diaries Volume: bk. 4]by Johnson, Terry Lynn 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)

BTSB #: 493387 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 3.3 3-5 Lexile: 590

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Survival skills - Fiction Deserts - Fiction Dust storms - Fiction Chihuahuan Desert - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Mysterious traveler by Peet, Mal 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2013)

BTSB #: 708582 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 3.9 LG RC: 3.3 3-5 Lexile: 590

Genres:

Subjects: Orphans - Fiction Deserts - Fiction Missing children - Fiction

Summary: Who is the young stranger, and what does his arrival mean for the life Issa and Mariama share in the desert?

Tips for magicians by Rimington, Celesta 

BTSB Prebound(Crown Books for Young Readers, 2021)

BTSB #: 754370 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG Lexile: 690 F&P: X

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Grief - Fiction Moving - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Magic tricks - Fiction Deserts - Fiction Utah - Fiction

Summary: When his mother, a professional singer, dies, twelve-year-old Harrison moves to the southern Utah desert, where he continues learning card tricks, makes new friends, enters an art contest, and finds a way to pay tribute to his mother.

Water Lady : how Darlene Arviso helps a thirsty Navajo Nation by McGinty, Alice B. 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 626236 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.8 LG Lexile: 640 AD

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Arviso, Darlene - Fiction Water supply - Fiction Deserts - Fiction Navajo Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - New Mexico - Fiction New Mexico - Fiction

Summary: Darlene Arviso drives a school bus and picks up students for school. After dropping them off, she heads to another job: she drives her big yellow tanker truck to the water tower, fills it with three thousand gallons of water, and returns to the reservation, bringing water to many, many others.