Explains the importance of water to life on Earth, how flooding occurs, and some of its most devastating consequences.

""Our home began, as all things do, with a wish." Jane Edwards hasn't spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other Black resident. Now, twelve years later, she's found a haven in the all-Black town of Awenasa. But the construction of a dam promises to wash her home under the waters of the new lake. Jane will do anything to save the community that sheltered her. So, when a man...

When a flood causes a family to be stranded in their car, Farmer John's tractor is the only vehicle that is able to rescue the family.

After days of being in a cave with the rest of his herd due to torrential rains, Elmer the patchwork elephant is ready for some time alone, but first he must get help to rescue Young Elephant from an island formed by flood waters.

Young Malini is anxious about planting her first rice crop, but when a flash flood leaves her stranded with the ox cart filled with rice seedlings, she knows the village is relying on her to keep the little plants safe.

"Meg and Greg are off on a series of summer adventures around their neighborhood, along with some four-legged companions. The two friends pull off a bake sale despite back-to-back disasters in the preparations, save the day for Greg's mom when her ballet studio floods, rescue the neighbor's dog after he slips down a slope into a cove, and discover a lost cat with newborn kittens sheltering in a dangerous spot in the garden"--

A graphic account of the collapse of a poorly constructed dam and the resulting flood which killed 2,000 people and caused a nationwide scandal.

As a fire rages through the Australian bush, wombat Dig invites other animals into his and his irritable roommate Scratch’s cool, damp burrow to keep them safe, proving to Scratch that a crowd of creatures is just what they need.