Calling the wind : a story of healing and hope by Ludwig, Trudy 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2022)

BTSB #: 589946 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 320 AD F&P: T

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Grief - Fiction Mothers - Fiction Family life - Japan - Fiction Winds - Fiction Japan - Fiction

Summary: A Japanese family mourns the loss of a wife and mother by making origami cranes and using the Wind Telephone to communicate their feelings of loss and yearning.

Elephant's girl by Rimington, Celesta 

Paperback(Yearling, 2021)

BTSB #: 754362 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.2 MG Lexile: 800 F&P: U

Genres:

Subjects: Elephants - Fiction Zoos - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Fiction Ghosts - Fiction Winds - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Lexington, a foundling raised in a zoo, spends a summer cementing friendships, growing closer to the elephant that saved her life, and learning about her family and herself.

Elephant's girl by Rimington, Celesta 

BTSB Prebound(Yearling, 2021)

BTSB #: 754366 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.2 MG Lexile: 800 F&P: U

Genres: Animals Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Elephants - Fiction Zoos - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Fiction Ghosts - Fiction Winds - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Lexington, a foundling raised in a zoo, spends a summer cementing friendships, growing closer to the elephant that saved her life, and learning about her family and herself.

Ever by Levine, Gail Carson 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2009)

BTSB #: P00570 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   


Genres: Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Fate and fatalism - Fiction Gods - Fiction Winds - Fiction Immortality - Fiction

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.

Mirandy and Brother Wind by McKissack, Pat 

BTSB Prebound(Dragonfly Books, 1988)

BTSB #: 628102 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.6 MG RC: 3.5 K-2 Lexile: 690 F&P: R

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Dancing - Fiction Winds - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.

Thief of worlds by Coville, Bruce 

BTSB Prebound(Random House, 2021)

BTSB #: 245908 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 700

Genres: Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Fantasy fiction Winds - Fiction Magic - Fiction

Summary: To save heavily pollulted Earth and his ailing mother, eleven-year-old Hurricane must travel to magical worlds, aboard a giant, winged tiger, to rescue the wind and other elements.

Viento, Vientito = wind, little wind by Argueta, Jorge 

BTSB PreboundBILINGUAL(Pinata Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 068235 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   


Genres: Spanish Bilingual General Fiction

Subjects: Winds - Fiction Polyglot materials

Summary: Describes the power of wind from the perspective of a mischievous youngster. In English and Spanish.

Weather's bet by Young, Ed 

BTSB Prebound(Philomel Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 975732 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.2 LG Lexile: 540 AD F&P: M

Genres: Folk Tales, Fables, Mythology

Subjects: Winds - Fiction Rain - Fiction Wagers - Fiction Sun - Fiction

Summary: Retells the fable, "The Wind and the Sun," in which Wind, Rain, and Sun attempt to remove the cap of a shepherdess. Collage illustrations include symbols based on seal characters of Chinese pictograms.