Elementary Students:
LRFO = Let’s Read and Find Out early readers
- Close to the Wind: The Beaufort Scale by Peter Malone (PB, K+, 32 pp.)
- Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (PB, gr. K-3, 32 pp.) AND
- Snowflakes in Photographs by W. A. Bentley (reference, Bentley’s photographs)
- My Brother Loved Snowflakes: The Story of Wilson A. Bentley, the Snowflake Man by Mary Bahr (gr 1-5, 32 pp.)
- Snow Is Falling by Franklyn M. Branley (LRFO 1)
- Snow by Thelma Harrington Bell
- Not Only for Ducks: The Story of Rain by Glenn Orlando Blough (46 pp.)
- On the Same Day in March: A Tour of the World’s Weather by Marilyn Singer (PB, 40 pp.)
- The Big Storm by Bruce Hiscock (PB, 32 pp.)
- Rain and Hail by Franklyn M. Branley (LRFO)
- Feel the Wind by Arthur Dorros (LRFO 2)
- Sunshine Makes the Seasons by Franklyn M. Branley (LRFO 2)
- What Will the Weather Be? by Lynda DeWitt (LRFO 2)
- Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll by Franklyn M. Branley (LRFO 2)
- Tornado Alert by Franklyn M. Branley (LRFO 2)
- Down Comes the Rain by Franklyn M. Branley (LRFO 2)
- Clouds by Anne Rockwell (LRFO 1)
- Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean by Arthur Dorros (LRFO 2)
- The Story of the Trade Winds by Ruth Brindze (68 p.)
- Weather by Seymour Simon (40 p.)
- Seymour Simon’s other weather books (Tornadoes, Lightning, Hurricanes, Storms, Global Warming)
- The First Book of Weather by Rose Wyler (63 p.)
- Junior Science Book of Rain, Hail, Sleet and Snow by Nancy Larrick (63 p.) *great option
- Storms by Melvin Berger *1977 version (48 p. gr. 4-7)
- Man Who Named the Clouds by Julie Hanna (40 pp.)
- Climate Maps by Ian F. Mahaney (PB, 24 p.) *Don’t miss this one
- Air: The Elements by Ken Robbins
- Blizzard!: The Storm that Changed America by Jim Murphy (144 pp.)
- Miss Pickerell and the Weather Satellite by Ellen MacGregor (157 p.)
- Danny Dunn and the Weather Machine by Jay Williams (144 p.)
MS and HS students:
- Watching Weather: Discover the Unexpected Science and Lore of Sun, Storms and Seasons by Mary Miller, Tom Murphree and the Exploratorium
- The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop by Tristan Gooley
- The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature’s Secret Signs by Peter Wohlleben
- Everyday Weather and How It Works by Herman Schneider (189 pp.)
- Look at the Sky and Tell the Weather by Eric Sloane (108 p.)
- Eric Sloane’s Weather Book
- All About the Weather by Ivan Ray Tannehill (148 p.)
- Our Changing Weather by Carroll Lane Fenton (110 p.)
- The Snowflake Man: A Biography of Wilson A. Bentley by Duncan C. Blanchard (237 p.)
- The Invention of Clouds by Richard Hamblyn (256 p.)
- The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger (248 p.)
- Incredible Man of Science: Irving Langmuir by Virginia Veeder Westervelt (192 p. Messner biography)
- Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson (338 p. story about a hurricane that hit Galveston, TX in 1900)
- Fitzroy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin’s Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast by John Gribbin
- The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future by Peter Moore (416 pp.)
- Meteorology; or, Weather Explained by J. G. M’Pherson (126 pp.)
- Reading the Weather by Morris Longstreth (402 pp.)
For Reference:
- Skies and the Artist: How to Draw Clouds and Sunsets by Eric Sloane
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