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(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 7
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On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
3) Deathwatch
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Needing money for school, a college student accepts a job as a guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
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"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"--
5) Deadzone
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Horizon volume 2
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Seven of the eight survivors of the Aero Horizon crash have made it out of the deadly jungle, but the desert into which they have emerged has its own dangers, and they have very little food or water left and no sign of civilization anywhere--meanwhile, one of the survivors is changing, and that may be the greatest threat of all.
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"When thirteen-year-olds T.E. and Audrey meet at a wilderness camp in the desert, they think their quirks are enough to prevent them from ever having friends. But as they trek through the challenging and unforgiving landscape, they learn that they each have what it takes to make the other whole"--
10) Dust storm!
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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.
12) A bed of stars
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A reassuring picture book about finding one's place in the world follows a father as he takes his child on their first camping trip where he shows, under a blanket of stars, that the universe is a friendly place.
15) The sunhat
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Rosa has a wonderful hat that fits her just right, but when the wind blows it away the hat shelters a wide variety of desert creatures from a storm.
16) Burning
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In the scorching Nevada desert during the Burning Man art festival, a small town boy meets a Gypsy girl, when both are at crossroads in their lives.
20) Tumble
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The rhyming text follows a lone tumbleweed in its journey across a desert teeming with life.