Fiction This is the story of the four Moffat children who live with their widowed mother on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut. In this first of a four-book series about the family, Sylvie, Joey, Janey, and Rufus frequently experience adventures that combine fun with trouble.
Only a Moffat could accidentally lock himself in the breadbox or accidentally hitch a ride out of town on a boxcar during kindergarten recess. Har- court, Originally published in Fiction This is the story of seven-year-old Rufus Moffat, who lives with his widowed mother and older siblings in early-twentieth- century Connecticut. Rufus isn't quite like other children. He gets things done, but he gets them done his way. He isn't just the youngest Moffat — he is also the cleverest, funniest, and the most unforgettable.
This is the third book in a four-book series about the Moffats. Stepping Out with Grandma Mac. Poetry er c 26 Chapter 1: Families 9 Vignettes in verse gradually reveal the relationship and love between Grandma Mac and her granddaughter. The seemingly aloof and gruff Grandma Mac and her direct, observant grand- daughter share insights on shopping, homework, proper man- ners, and traditions.
In addition to Grimes's lyrical words, Angelo's illustrations reveal telling details and the mutual love and respect between Grandma Mac and her granddaughter. The Secret Life of Dr. Fiction Wesley Brown is a normal fourteen-year-old until he discovers the identity of the masked pro wrestler. His iden- tity must remain a secret, and this puts pressure on Wesley. Wes- ley's life becomes more complicated when his mother begins dating Dr. Fiction Chuck and Lori have been raised primarily by their grandpar- ents after their father died in a tractor accident years earlier and their mother went on tour as a motivational speaker.
When their mother invites Chuck and Lori to accompany her on a two-week speaking tour, they are not only transported into the unknown world of air travel and hotels, but they also experience their own forms of emotional takeoffs and landings as they come to know themselves and their mother. Fiction Twelve-year-old Tall T struggles when his father abandons the family, but he has a strong and loving mother. Lacking money for school clothes, he escapes to the library, where the local librarian teaches him to read.
Tall T helps his mother keep the family together and climbs Jacob's Ladder, literally and figura- tively. Set in Jamaica, this story is based on the childhood of the coauthor and includes an afterword that adds to the reader's understanding of Tall T's courageous struggles. Frances Foster Books, Fiction r 10 Challenges of Coming of Age Andy, an Irish Canadian boy, is devastated when he loses his mother and stepfather in a flood.
Immediately disliking his strict aunt who comes to take him from his home in Vancouver to Hal- ifax, he is surprised to learn that his father, whom he thought to be dead, is alive and living in Halifax. Luckily, Andy has the mythical Sheehogue, Irish faeries, to look after him as he faces living in a decrepit boardinghouse with his unemployed father. Fiction Cory depends on her brother Sonny now that their father is dead. Coping with hard truths about the family and Sonny's idea that his father didn't respect him, Cory senses the changes in Sonny through his letters from Vietnam.
The novel represents many views of the Vietnam War and portrays Cory as a thinker and reader who gains insight into events and people as she matures. Fiction Raised in New York City by her grandmother after her mother died during her birth, fifteen-year-old Liv moves to California to join her estranged father when Gram dies of a sudden heart attack. An ab alone diver, her father is a man of few words and fewer comforts and does not make Liv's transition a smooth one.
His girlfriend, however, welcomes Liv, and together they weather various crises. When Liv helps her father dive for abalone, their relationship begins to change. Everything on a Waffle. Fiction Even after the memorial service for her parents, eleven-year-old Primrose Squarp, a lifelong resident of Coal Harbour, British Columbia, is the only person convinced that they did not die in the typhoon.
The novel is full of memorable characters some more helpful than others and recipes written in Primrose's exu- berant voice, including recipes from the local restaurant that serves all food on a waffle. In the end, she discovers that life hap- pens even in the smallest town, a lesson reminiscent of Our Town. Running Back to Ludie. Poetry 28 Chapter 1: Families 11 With a powerful, poetic voice, the narrator of these poems recounts her memories of her mother, whom she hasn't seen in years. She remembers her mother through photographs and dis- tant memories.
When the narrator gets to spend a few days with her mother, Ludie, she discovers who her mother is while dis- covering herself as well. When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street. Illus- trated by John Ward. Fiction Charlie and her best friends. Lump and BiUy, have grand summer- time adventures as they spend their days fishing, solving myster- ies, and making a mule fly in order to comfort an elderly friend in the hospital. When Lump and BiUy go to camp, Charlie keeps up a hilarious correspondence with them while making a new friend and teaming up with her brother to help a neighbor in need.
The Color of My Words. Joanna Cotier Books, Fiction Growing up in a close-knit family in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Ana Rosa values her family, her notebook, and writing above all else, but she lives tmder a government in which silence is protection. After a rebellion and terrible per- sonal tragedy, the irrepressible Ana Rosa discovers the power of words and the importance of telling people's stories.
Fiction Jenna and her best friend, Liv, are imenthusiastically fulfilling an eight-grade class project by reading to elderly citizens. Jenna's "assignment," Miss Caples, won't talk or react imtil Jenna stops reading and starts talking to her about problems in her family and with Liv. Because Jenna's experiences with Liv eerily parallel Miss Caples's past, their meetings work to their mutual benefit.
Seventeen-year-old Squid McCrae has been away from home for three years — since the birth of her daughter Tatiana. She returns to introduce her daughter to Lizzie Island, the remote place 12 Challenges of Coming of Age where Squid grew up with her brother Alastair. Even after her time away from the island. Squid is haunted by her brother's death a suicide and is still angry with her father, the lighthouse keeper, for keeping the family on the isolated island for so long.
This book may be more appropriate for older readers. The Circus in the Woods. Fiction Molly tells the story of her summer vacations at a lodge in Ver- mont, an emphasis on her relationship with her sister and the process of growing up. In the woods, Molly finds a strange cir- cus with interesting performers who lead Molly to examine her life and her childhood. Girl Power in the Family: Nonfiction Relationships, especially family relationships, are important to girls.
In this book, girls are interviewed about the issues they face. The book offers real teenagers' strategies and ideas for deal- ing with their families and making the most of their time at home. It also discusses prejudices girls face, body image, and development of self-confidence. Resources for parents, teachers, and girls are also provided. Nonfiction A new family moves to town, and when the townspeople sus- pect that this family is behind the cutting down of the popular "climbing tree," the community is divided.
Laurel Shade believes the new boy is an "android" but befriends his sister when others won't. Laurel discovers what being an outsider means. She develops empathy for others, including her younger sister, and the confidence to confront her fears and stand up for what is right. Love and Other Four-Letter Words. Out of the blue, sixteen-year-old Sammie Davis's life is turned upside down. Her parents separate, and she and her er c 30 Chapter 1: As her mother attempts to cope with her marital problems, Sam- mie is forced to play the role of adult as she deals with new responsibilities and experiences.
In an attempt to make sense of her life, Sammie learns to evaluate friendships, relationships, and her place in the world. A Comer of the Universe. Fiction Hattie has been anticipating an uneventful summer, but when a long-lost "crazed" uncle arrives unexpectedly, life is turned upside down. Trying desperately to connect with this strange and disturbed new relative, Hattie learns a little about his men- tal illness and much more about becoming a caring and fully realized person. Illustrated by Helen Stephens. David Pickling Books, Fiction The Quigleys are a rather unusual English family.
At every turn, a new problem arises with yet another member of the family, as when Lucy's sleepover turns into a search party — complete with police — for her missing friend, who turns up asleep under the duvet. The Quigleys, however, face these problems with humor and high spirits. Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining. She is concerned about her reputation in school compared with those of her brother and twin sisters, who always seem to be outstanding in all their accomplishments. Abby loves to write and collects calendars for a hobby.
The new writing teacher at school helps Abby recognize her own outstand- ing abilities. The story is told partly through Abby's journal entries and drawings. Fiction Cassie HiU is thirteen and struggling with life in a small Arkansas town in the s. Her sister leaves town without explanation 31 14 Challenges of Coming of Age after her boyfriend's suicide; her father is having an affair with the preacher's wife; and her friends and the townspeople seem eager to pronounce judgment.
Then Cassie befriends a quiet boy whose family has recently come from Hungary Together, they help each other deal with the trials of growing up. Anne of Green Gables. Dover, Originally published in Fiction Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Aladdin, Originally published in Fiction In this timeless classic, readers get to know Anne, a redheaded orphan, who insists that her name be spelled with an e. Full of energy and imagination, Anne's ardent wish to have a family and friends of her own is granted when Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, an elderly brother and sister, take her into their home at Green Gables.
Throughout her many adventures and misad- ventures, Anne charms everyone she meets with her irrepress- ible tongue and delightful nature. Fiction Born in Vietnam and raised in France, thirteen-year-old Zazoo lives a happy but imeventful life in a stone mill at the canal lock with her adoptive grandfather. The novel's love and war World War II and Vietnam stories, bitter and sweet, kind and cruel, unfold slowly in metaphors, prose, and poems. Many surprising connections are revealed among people in the village and elsewhere.
Fiction There are two things that set Georgia Hansen apart from her friends: Long ago one aimt rebelled and left home. When that aunt returns to celebrate Georgia's six- teenth birthday, the pieces of her world — horses, family, flying — all need to be realigned and integrated before Georgia can truly soar in this coming-of-age novel. A Spy among the Girls. Fiction First love is never easy, but for Beth Malloy and Josh Hatford it gets more than ordinarily complicated.
As Valentine's Day approaches, it seems that Beth's crush on Josh becomes more trouble than it's worth. Beth's sisters and the three Hatford brothers devise a series of hilarious plots ranging from boys spying on girls to a science project involving the town's mysterious night-prowUng monster. The Empress of Elsewhere. Fiction The Empress is a capuchin monkey left to J. Told through the voice of Jim, hired to spend time with J. A Face in Every Window. Fiction Grandma Mary is the glue that holds this dysfunctional family together: When Grandma Mary dies, there is a huge void in all their lives.
JP is thrust into the position of being parent and guardian for both of his parents as he deals with his father's limited abilities and his mother's depression. Fiction Twelve-year-old Pearl narrates this story of abandonment, love, and hope. After Pearl is abandoned by her mother and left with her aunt, she learns how normal, loving people connect with one another. That lesson offers hope when she is reunited with her mother. Pearls reveals her feelings through a series of unmailed postcards she writes to her mother using cards from her own collection.
Fiction Life on the farm is never the same for thirteen-year-old Rosie and her family when a letter arrives from her Aunt Euterpe inviting the family to Chicago to visit the World's Columbian Expo- sition. Mama sends Rosie, Buster, and their older sister Lottie on the train to Chicago. They have barely left the station when the train slows to take on another passenger, the irrepressible Grand- dad. Citification is not easy but it is entertaining as they encounter electricity, the exhibits, Buffalo Bill, and Lillian Russell.
A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories. Fiction Every year for nine years during the Great Depression, Joey and his sister Mary Alice journey from the excitement of their home- town of Chicago to spend time with their Grandma Dowdell in a small town in southern Illinois. Stories of their adventures with Grandma Dowdell, a no-nonsense woman who can only be described as unusual, are never boring and are often laugh-out- loud funny. A Year Down Yonder. It is narrated by Mary Alice, a fif- teen-year-old girl sent to spend a year with her Grandma Dowdell when her father is laid off during the Great Depression.
Faced with the typical problems of adolescence, Mary Alice learns a great deal from her one-of-a-kind grandmother. Is Everyone Moonbumed but Me? Fiction Hannah, the middle child in her family, is a responsible, depend- able, pleasant, gifted young girl. She, however, does not see her- self as special at all — in fact, she thinks she is plain. Frustrated at being the middle child, she wants to move in with her father, but the fact that he is dating makes that difficult.
Hannah learns that family relationships are complicated. Fiction Elsie Mcphee lives with her mom and her seven-year-old brother Tommy. Elsie is home tutored, prevented from making friends, and not allowed out of their apartment without her mother. Elise's family is always on the nm, and she feels like a prisoner in her own home.
Her memories of her father and her past are painful — has it actually been four years since she was abruptly taken from him?
Elsie is torn between contacting her father and being loyal to her mother. Fiction Olivia is a fourteen-year-old girl living in England. Her parents are recently separated, and her father has moved in with another woman. While struggling to adjust to her parents' separation, Olivia meets and becomes close friends with a new boy in town, Ryan. Just as Olivia and Ryan move toward a serious relation- ship, they discover that they are half siblings.
Though confused and angry at first, Olivia learns to accept and appreciate her new family structure. Fiction Fourteen-year-old Sophie lives with her mother in England. She doesn't appreciate her mother, whom she finds materialistic in comparison to her missionary father living in Africa.
Sophie's father comes for a visit at the same time Sophie meets and befriends Tony. Sophie begins to recognize her mother 's love for her and her father's shortcomings. Eventually, she accepts her parents' faults, appreciates their love for her, and finds that she has fallen in love with Tony. Fiction This is the low-key, poetically told story of Ellie Farley as she moves from eleven to twelve years of age. It's also the story of Ellie and Bullet, the himting dog her dad imexpectedly brings home. Ellie is glad to have Bullet during this year of odd events.
Yet it's also a year of small, ordinary pleasures of life in rural West Virginia. Lord of the Deep. Fiction Although the lord of the deep in this story is Bill Monks, skipper of the fishing vessel Crystal-C, the true hero is Mikey Donovan, his stepson. Mikey sails with Bill every day in order to learn the trade and prepare for his own chance at being skipper. Mikey idolizes Bill and stays with him day in and day out. He's even there the three days the obnoxious clients from Colorado come aboard and everyone is in for a rough ride.
The Great Blue Yonder. Fiction Reminiscent of Our Town and It's a Wonderful Life, this novel of young Harry's death and moving on to the Great Blue Yonder is in turn hilarious and touching, or "nicely sad," as Harry would say. His authentic ten-year-old voice adds humor to events as Harry discovers how to repair the damage of his last words to his sister, "You'll be sorry when I'm dead," spoken just before he was hit by a truck while riding his bike.
Fiction Blister is the name Alyssa gives herself once life begins to turn sour. After "ten ordinary years as an only child," Mom and Dad start having problems, and the baby they've all been waiting for dies during labor. Dad moves out and ignores Alyssa; Mom is too wrapped up in her own worries and depression to notice her; and Grandma is only around when she's not taking part in dance competitions. Finally Alyssa decides she has had enough and proceeds to create some problems of her own.
Niker, the class bully even follows him to and from school. When Robert is assigned to Mrs. Sorrell at the 36 Chapter 1: Families 19 retirement home as part of a class project, however, he achieves self-respect and respect from his classmates. His link to Mrs. Sor- rell affects his life and hers in a profound way.
As Robert becomes feather boy, he transforms many aspects of his life. All the Blue Moons at the Wallace Hotel. Fiction After the death of her father, Fiona lives with her mother and sis- ter in a neglected mansion. It is Fiona's dream to become a ballet dancer and have a "normal" family, but reality doesn't live up to her dreams. Only after a series of events that put her sister's life at risk does Fiona realize that her family is her best resource to achieving her goals. Phyllis Fogelman Books, Bom during the Civil War, Paul-Edward is the son of a white plantation owner and a former slave.
Paul-Edward and his sister have many of the privileges their white half brothers enjoy. But at fourteen, Paul-Edward runs away to seek his fortune. His story is filled with excitement and danger, triumph and disappoint- ment, but mostly it is the story of triumph against incredible odds. Fiction Evan and his mother have no idea how the return of her father, after an absence of thirty years, during which he was thought dead, will change their lives. Evan's grandfather had left Evan's mother when she was three years old and been a carpenter on ships.
Now he is dying of a heart condition but returns to bring spontaneity and joy to the Bryant family, gain their forgiveness, and also help Evan deal with a bully at school. Fiction Fifteen-year-old Skylar Deacon carmot escape the grip of her overprotective parents or her past. She struggles for independ- ence, yet her past casts shadows on her confidence.
As she deals with the past, she finds loyal friends to help her face her fears and uncertainties. Fiction Jane and her mother are clearing out grandmother's home to set- tle the estate. The work is difficult but not nearly as difficult as the emotional strain of battling with selfish Aunt Norma and cousin Rikki, an egocentric slob. Meeting the mysterious, book-loving Carey at the local amusement park adds some color to Jane's oth- erwise dreary days.
But when a jealous Rikki tells Jane's mother that Jane and Carey have been sneaking out at night, family his- tory begins to repeat itself as secrets from the past emerge. Fiction Abbie and her brother Seth are growing up in Maine — by them- selves. Their mother died from the small pox epidemic and their father is away at sea. The siblings end up in the home of Lydia Chase, the widow of a sea captain who also died from small pox. Abbie helps around the house in exchange for room and board, but as Widow Chase's money begins to run out, Abbie needs to find a way to save them all.
Fiction Amelia Forrest does not believe in anything — not prayer, not miracles, and certainly not in her father's return. He is gone for- ever, and it's all her fault. Guilt ridden, twelve-year-old Amelia must learn to accept life for what it is: She must also learn to trust again as she attempts to mend her relationship with her mother and accept Brother Mustard Seed's claim of contact with her daddy.
Fiction When Kara's father leaves town for a new job two hours away, her mother slides deeper into mental illness. Sixth grader Kara hopes that by being a "perfect person" she will blend in at school 38 Chapter 1: Families 21 and prevent the situation at home from getting worse. But it seems that the more Kara tries, the worse her mother's condition becomes and the harder it is for Kara to hide her dysfunctional home life from her friends and teachers. Fiction Sisters Ivy and Lacey are unhappy when their parents armounce they are getting a divorce.
Ivy, the younger sister, is even more devastated when she finds she can't count on her relationships with Lacey anymore. Sent into a downward spiral by their par- ents' turmoil. Ivy and Lacey's closeness disappears. When Dad moves out, Lacey goes with him. Tensions escalate and the girls punch, kick, and bite each other when forced to spend the week- end together. Ivy proposes the drastic solution of a "sister spilt. Fiction Jules spends her days as most thirteen-year-olds do. She passes notes in class and tries to avoid talking to Adrian, who has a crush on her.
She spends time with her friends and tries to ignore the friction between her parents. But then life turns upside down. Jules's dad, without any explanation, leaves home and refuses to talk to her. Photographers and reporters start hounding her, jump- ing out from the bushes to steal her picture. What is going on? Fiction Lyric never really knew her mother, but her older sister Summer has always been there for her. When their father is promised a job in the auto plants of Flint, Michigan, he moves Lyric and Summer to the city from their home in rural Virginia. Summer, whose quirkiness was considered charming in the holler, is frightened and distiurbed by the change.
She slides rapidly and painfully into full-fledged schizophrenia. When Summer is committed to the state hospital. Lyric loses a loving part of her childhood. Fiction 33 22 Challenges of Coming of Age Ruby wrestles with repressed feelings and misconceptions about the previous year's life-changing event, a car accident that killed her grandfather. The letters between Ruby and her grandmother, as well as narration and newspaper articles, reveal a strong inter- generational relationship. Fortunately, Ruby's grandmother's let- ters and the encouragement of others give Ruby the inner strength to finally deal with the accident.
Ruby's letters reveal an irrepressible character with a southern flavor. Fiction Casey is thirteen and lives with his father. The house must be perfect and all chores done just in case Casey's dad is "not feel- ing well" when he gets home. That leaves little time for Casey to be with friends, and he's starting to resent it. Although he tries to keep it a secret, his friends, relatives, and others assure Casey that despite his fears he must confront his father about his drink- ing and convince him to get help. A Mother to Embarrass Me.
Fiction Laura is fed up — her mother is always embarrassing her. She does silly things like wearing slippers in public places just to make Laura crazy. Then her mom drops a bomb: Laura begins to develop a list of things to change about her mother, and the list is growing longer day by day.
Will Laura survive this ultimate embarrassment, or will she realize how wonderful her parents and new little sister truly are? When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Nep- tune. Fiction Shayla lives with her mom and older sister and is close to her grandmother. She befriends her neighbor Kambia Elaine and eventually learns why Kambia Elaine is so detached from the world.
Shayla relays the many conflicts, including sexual abuse, parent-child struggles, and socioeconomic issues, in a touching, straightforward, and compassionate way. Although this is a book for mature reading audiences, at the center of the story is the strong core of Shayla's home and family.
Fiction Jan is devoted to her horse, especially since her father's death. But it's all her mother can do to earn enough money to make ends meet. When Jan discovers that her horse needs an operation, she knows they can't afford the surgery. Help comes from an unexpected place, however. Jan has befriended Mattie, a lonely elderly woman living next door. Through this unlikely friendship, the two are able to help each other and come up with solutions to both their problems. Wendy Lamb Books, Fiction Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth befriends Clarence, who has been ostracized because of his cleft palate, when they both retreat to the mountain woods for refuge after a mining accident turns the town upside down.
Set in West Virginia coal mining country in , the two characters alternate narration of the events as their lives turn violent during the summer the union organizers come to town and pit family members and friends against one another. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Fiction Four teenage girls from different backgroimds, lifelong friends, agree to mail a pair of thrift-shop jeans back and forth during their first summer away from one another. The pants magically seem to fit each girl even though the girls are very different sizes and builds.
The pants give each girl confidence as she experi- ences various adolescent adventures. Ultimately, the pants come to symbolize their sisterhood as each is faced with difficult deci- sions and serious consequences. Fiction Fiona faces a tough decision that could lead to trouble with her best friend, Blanca. She also has to figure out how to stay friends with Natalie, who's moving to a different middle school, how to 41 24 Challenges of Coming of Age be friends with a boy, and how to juggle loyalty to her friend Katie when keeping Katie's secret could mean Katie is in danger.
Pages from Fiona's diary draw readers into her world because of the humor and poignancy with which she chronicles her life. Snail Mail No More. Fiction We first met Tara and Elizabeth in P. Longer Letter Later follow- ing Tara's move to Ohio and a year of writing letters. Now Tara and Elizabeth finally have e-mail, and together they share the intense world of eighth grade in the cyberspace of immediate gratification.
Honest and unpredictable, this book addresses many issues today's teenagers face: Through the wonders of e-mail, Tara and Elizabeth learn to broaden their understanding of themselves. The Girls' Book of Friendship: Nonfiction Sharing secrets, laughter, and tears is common among girls of all ages. This book celebrates these activities and more. As the subti- tle promises, each chapter includes cool quotes, true stories, and sometimes poems or songs written by women such as Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Kwan, and Christina Aguilera.
Topics span a wide range of subjects, from slumber party etiquette to flicks to watch with girlfriends. Serious attention is also given to making and maintaining relationships as well as learning to be your own best friend. Fiction Soon after Scarlett's boyfriend is killed in a motorcycle accident, she learns she is pregnant with his child.
Never before has she needed her best friend Halley so much. Halley has always been the quiet one and Scarlett the popular one, but now Halley must decide if she can continue to give her friend the emotional sup- port she needs. Scarlett and Halley learn just how difficult teen pregnancy can be and how important and true their friendship is. Fur-ever Yours, Booker Jones.
Fiction 42 Chapter 2: Friends and Peers 25 Booker Jones enjoys his life with his family and his best friend Germ. His writing and the attention it brings consume him. This all changes when his parents leave and his sister takes charge of the house. His friendship with Germ is tested in Writing Club when Germ's writing draws more attention than his own, and when Grandpa becomes frail, Booker and his sister have to fig- ure out how to bring joy back into his life.
Fiction Jack and Chris have been best friends since first grade. Now in eighth grade, their friendship is tested as Chris blossoms from tomboy into attractive young lady, catching the eyes of other guys while still able to outmaneuver Jack in sports. Jack's feel- ings for Chris become more complicated until he wonders if he is falling in love with her. But they learn they need the easy and deep friendship they've long had as they move into the strange new world of dating. Fiction Addie Goode, who is being raised by her father after her mother abandoned them when Addie was three, always uses her imagi- nation to empathize with and help others.
She and her best friend Luke help reunite a pregnant, unwed, abused young woman with her family. At the same time, they learn to cope with Addie's new stepmother and Luke's reunited but con- tentious parents. Addie's naively wise point of view and practi- cality help many people and bring a lasting, greater good. Up on Cloud Nine. Fiction Ian and Stolly have been friends for years — such good friends that Ian's mother has practically raised Stol, whose own parents are often too busy with their high-powered careers to notice him.
After Stolly suffers a mysterious fall from an upper-floor win- dow at his home, Ian sits at his hospital bedside and wonders whether the accident was indeed accidental. Hard hitting but tender, this book explores the consequences for young people of being eccentric — "up on cloud nine" — in today's world. Fiction Clever and engaging. Iris experiences both the normal trials and tribulations of starting seventh grade her mom doesn't think she needs a bra, but she knows she does and relationships with strange, eccentric characters like Tattoo Man and Cat Lady.
Iris's open heart and friendly nature pull her into many adventures as she offers her services to neighbors who might need help with errands, chores, or shopping. Along the way, she also develops a special friendship with Will. Fiction Allie never wants to leave the island she calls home. When her family faces a financial struggle, Allie agrees to help out by working in their pie shop.
Even though she is busy, Allie longs for a friend her age and is delighted when Melanie turns out to be such a friend. Allie discovers that Melanie is vastly different from her and yet also the same. The two form a fast friendship as they learn about each other, growing up, and the world around them. All the Way Home. Fiction It's and the Dodgers are on a winning streak. Brick, the son of apple farmers whose orchard has been destroyed by fire, and Mariel, the adopted daughter of an old family friend, develop a friendship around their love of baseball.
As the Dodgers fight their way to the pennant. Brick and Mariel fight their way to their goals and, as they help each other, turn out to be as success- ful as their favorite team. A Calliope Day Adventure. Illustrated by Steve Pica. Fiction Noreen and Calliope are direct opposites in personality, but they have one thing in common; their love for a mischievous gray parrot named Captain Tweakerbeak.
This book chronicles their adventures in and out of school as they develop an unlikely friendship and learn what really counts in life. Friends and Peers 27 2. Fiction Amir has been reimited with his little brother, but he still wants to locate his other siblings. As he continues his search, he must adjust to a foster family and the realization that his little brother Ronald doesn't remember him or their parents. Amir sorts out his feelings, frustrations, and choices by writing letters to his friend Doris back in the Bronx.
Fiction After her mother dies, Martha Glimmer, age thirteen, hates her life in Oak Grove, and with two unusual friends she rims away from home. Trevor and Eli McGill, her friends, long to return to the sea, so the three begin a journey that takes several unex- pected twists and turns. A fast-paced novella, this story deals with the themes of loss, friendship, self-acceptance, and self- perception.
Fiction Told in the manner of a police report combining tape-recorded narrative with transcription of conversation, Amy tells her own story of how she turns to the Internet after being dumped by her two best friends. She meets Zed in a chat room and takes him at his word that he is who he says he is. When she sneaks off to meet him, she discovers that he has misrepresented himself. Life gets dangerous very quickly as Amy learns a lot about friend- ship and trust.
Fiction Addie, Joe, Bobby, and Skeezie, self-declared misfits in their small town middle school, have been friends forever and figure that together they can survive anything. When Addie refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance, the quartet challenges the status quo by forming a third political party in the student coimcil elec- tions to serve all the other outsiders and misfits.
In the Desmoinesian Strawn , the basin was astride the equator; during the Missourian Canyon , the center of the basin had migrated northward so it was located at N latitude. In the Virgilian Cisco , the basin center was located around N latitude, and by the Wolfcampian, it was positioned at around N latitude.
This change in motion reflects a major tectonic event, occurring between the Missourian and Virgilian, that greatly modifed the movement of the Laurentian North American plate. At that time, Laurentia had collided with Gondwana and become part of the supercontinent Pangea. Late Paleozoic paleogeography and paleolatitude controlled the direction of prevailing winds and ocean currents, thereby influencing the distribution of carbonate facies in the Midland basin.
Present prevailing winds and ocean currents have been shown to have a major impact on modern carbonate sedimentation and facies distribution in Belize, the Bahamas and Turks, and Caicos. A clearer understanding of how late Paleozoic latitude and geography affected sedimentation helps explain and predict the distribution of carbonates throughout the Midland basin. A feasibility study for an emergency medical services system to serve the Permian basin in the state of Texas. Conclusions and recommendations are included.
Walker County, within the Piney Woods region of East Texas , is populated by rural, poorer school districts with a large percentage of minority students. Due in part to a lack of resources not only for the students, but also for the educators, students in this region suffer poor science education skills. ASSET focused on inquiry-based lessons and hands-on activities that engaged the teacher participants, supplemented by content lectures.
While many questions imply mid- to high-normalized gain for each concept, we find the highest gains for questions directly related to activities that strongly engaged the participants. We also found through an evaluation survey a discrepancy between the concepts where participants rated themselves as improving in understanding versus the concepts where high levels of improvement actually occurred. Sediment plays an important role in the ecological health of rivers and estuaries and consequently is an important issue for water-resource managers.
Geological Survey, in cooperation with the San Antonio River Authority, completed a two-part study in the San Antonio River Basin downstream from San Antonio, Texas , to 1 collect and analyze sediment data to characterize sediment conditions and 2 develop and calibrate a watershed model to simulate hydrologic conditions and suspended-sediment loads during — Chloride control and monitoring program in the Wichita River Basin , Texas , Waters from the Wichita River Basin , which is part of the Red River Basin , are characterized by high concentrations of chloride and other salinity-related constituents from salt springs and seeps hereinafter salt springs in the upper reaches of the basin.
These salt springs have their origins in the Permian Period when the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma areas were covered by a broad shallow sea. Over geologic time, evaporation of the shallow seas resulted in the formation of salt deposits, which today are part of the geologic formations underlying the area. Groundwater in these formations is characterized by high chloride concentrations from these salt deposits, and some of this groundwater is discharged by the salt springs into the Wichita River. Geological Survey completed a geology-based assessment of undiscovered, technically recoverable continuous petroleum resources in the Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin part of the Permian Basin Province of west Texas.
This is the first U. Geological Survey evaluation of continuous resources in the Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin. This play has traditionally been developed using vertical wells that are completed and stimulated in multiple productive stratigraphic intervals that include the Wolfcamp shale and overlying Spraberry Formation. Since the shift to horizontal wells targeting the organic-rich shale of the Wolfcamp, more than 3, horizontal wells have been drilled and completed in the Midland Basin Wolfcamp section.
Geological Survey assessed technically recoverable mean resources of 20 billion barrels of oil and 16 trillion cubic feet of associated gas in the Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin. This legislation Senate Bill 1 changed water planning in Texas from a statewide to a regional activity.
Fiction Seventeen-year-old Grace, subject to low expectations from her parents and most of her teachers, struggles with family changes after her father's stroke. During the Oligocene the Caribbean faults of the Oca system and conjugates began with a dominantly transtensional regime becoming progressively transpressional by Miocene time. Together, assessment units to are estimated to contain a mean undiscovered conventional resource of 29 million barrels of oil, 1, billion cubic feet of gas, and 22 million barrels of natural gas liquids. A one-dimensional heat-conduction model indicates that this radiogenic heat source has a significant effect on subsurface temperatures. So move in close and explore the chal- lenges we face and the books that will help us meet those challenges now and in the future. Most of the lignite is used for electric power generation in mine-mouth power plant facilities.
By September , the 16 regions created by Senate Bill 1 must produce water plans to address their water needs during drought-of-record conditions, and must identify water-management strategies for periods when streamflows, reservoir storage, and groundwater levels are 50 and 75 percent of normal.
Characterization of the Lower Wolfcamp, Midland Basin , Texas , using subsurface stratigraphic and geochemical datasets. In recent years, the Midland Basin of west Texas has resurfaced as a strong and viable unconventional oil field, especially within the late Pennsylvanian-Early Permian section. In addition to exploring for hydrocarbons, studying this basin allows for a better understanding of the paleoceanographic and paleoenvironmental conditions that prevailed during deposition. This research focuses on subsurface data from the Lower Wolfcamp interval of the northern Midland Basin proximal to the Horseshoe Atoll.
Chemostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic analyses were conducted on ft of continuous drill core extracted from Martin County, Texas. Comprehensive analyses revealed repetitive stacking of organic-rich siliceous mudrocks, aluminum-rich clayey mudrocks, and diverse carbonate facies. High resolution energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence data demonstrate cyclic variability in silicon, aluminum, and calcium weight percentages.
These data suggest that during the time of deposition, the Midland Basin was a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate system influenced by a global icehouse climate with high frequency glacio-eustatic sea level fluctuations. Organic carbon preservation at this time was at least partially influenced by bottom water redox conditions.
Elemental trace metal data suggests the potential for anoxia and possibly euxinia, likely influenced by recharge from the Panthalassic Ocean. Stratal evidence for bottom water conditions and patterns of organic enrichment vary across the basin and in vertical succession; these factors may be explained by evolving oceanographic processes and environmental gradients within the basin. The timing of Lower Wolfcamp deposition may be Late Pennsylvanian, based on correlations to fusulinids in shelfal carbonates.
Thus, our preliminary interpretations focus on Lower Wolfcamp strata as a condensed package of deep- basin cyclothems. Why understanding the impacts of the changing environment on river basin hydrology matters in Texas? The State of Texas is prone to floods and droughts—both of which are expected to become more frequent, and more intensified, under a changing climate.
This has a direct negative effect on agricultural productivity, which is a major revenue source for the state. Meanwhile, with the rapid population growth and economic development, the burden to Texas water resources is exacerbated by the ever increasing demands from users. From a hydrological processes perspective, the direct consequence of the increased impervious area due to urbanization is greater surface runoff and higher flood peaks.
Although many reservoirs have been built during the past several decades to regulate river flows and increase water supply, the role of these reservoirs in the context of different future climate change and urbanization scenarios needs to be explored. Furthermore, phytoplankton productivity—an important indicator of coastal ecosystem health— is significantly affected by river discharge. The objective of this presentation is to reveal the importance of understanding the impacts of climate change, urbanization, and flow regulation on Texas river flows, water resources, and coastal water quality.
Using state-of-the-art modeling and remote sensing techniques, we will showcase our results over representative Texas river basins and bay areas. A few examples include modeling peak flows in the San Antonio River Basin , evaluating water supply resilience under future drought and urbanization over the Dallas metropolitan area, projecting future crop yields from Texas agricultural lands, and monitoring and forecasting Chlorophyll-a concentrations over Galveston Bay.
Results from these studies are expected to provide information relevant to decision making, both with regard to water resources management and to ecosystem protection. The outlook of the comparison between the NEGB and the PB is to lead to a joined 3D structural model, which allows reconstructing the synthetic geodynamic evolution of the area. Both were initiated during Late Carboniferous and Lower Permian, when the post-Variscan rifting affected the com- posite Palaeozoic basement of Central Europe.
During Triassic to Cretaceous times, both basins evolved due to thermal subsidence and pulses of tectonic subsidence. At the end of Cretaceous, the basins were tectonically inverted. Particularly, the Zechstein salt induced comparable sedimentary structures and provided a decoupling level between pre- and post-Zechstein rocks during the Late Cretaceous tectonic inversion in both basins. Finally, both basins show a N-S differentiation regarding the detailed subsidence history, the structural set- ting and the salt pattern.
In spite of the very similar tectonic evolution of the NEGB and the PB, their large-scale geometry and inversion-related structures are different. Soil Conservation Service is actively engaged in the installation of flood and soil erosion reducing measures in Texas under the authority of "The Flood Control Act of and " and ''Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act" Public Law , as amended. The Soil Conservation Service has found a total of approximately 3, floodwater-retarding structures to be physically and economically feasible in Texas.
This watershed-development program will have varying but important effects on the natural surface- and ground-water resources of river basins , especially where a large number of the floodwater-retarding structures are built. Basic hydrologic data under natural and developed conditions are needed to appraise the effects of the structures on the yield and mode of occurrence of runoff. Soil Conservation Service is actively engaged in the installation of flood and soil erosion reducing measures in Texas under the authority of ''The Flood Control Act of and " and ''Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act" Public Law , as amended.
Analysis of sludge from Hanford K East Basin canisters. Sludge samples from the canisters in the Hanford K East Basin fuel storage pool have been retrieved and analyzed. Both chemical and physical properties have been determined. The results are to be used to determine the disposition of the bulk of the sludge and to assess the impact of residual sludge on dry storage of the associated intact metallic uranium fuel elements. This report is a summary and review of the data provided by various laboratories.
Data were evaluated for internal consistency and consistency with respect to the governing sample analysis plan. Conclusions applicable to sludge disposition and spent fuel storage are drawn where possible. This article describes the primary geologic characteristics and criteria of the Barnett Shale and Barnett-Paleozoic total petroleum system TPS of the Fort Worth Basin used to define two geographic areas of the Barnett Shale for petroleum resource assessment. From these two areas, referred to as "assessment units," the U.
Geological Survey estimated a mean volume of about 26 tcf of undiscovered, technically recoverable hydrocarbon gas in the Barnett Shale. The Mississippian Barnett Shale is the primary source rock for oil and gas produced from Paleozoic reservoir rocks in the Bend arch-Fort Worth Basin area and is also one of the most significant gas-producing formations in Texas. Subsurface mapping from well logs and commercial databases and petroleum geochemistry demonstrate that the Barnett Shale is organic rich and thermally mature for hydrocarbon generation over most of the Bend arch-Fort Worth Basin area.
In the northeastern and structurally deepest part of the Fort Worth Basin adjacent to the Muenster arch, the formation is more than ft m thick and interbedded with thick limestone units; westward, it thins rapidly over the Mississippian Chappel shelf to only a few tens of feet. The Barnett-Paleozoic TPS is identified where thermally mature Barnett Shale has generated large volumes of hydrocarbons and is 1 contained within the Barnett Shale unconventional continuous accumulation and 2 expelled and distributed among numerous conventional clastic- and carbonate-rock reservoirs of Paleozoic age.
Vitrinite reflectance Ro measurements show little correlation with present-day burial depth. Contours of equal Ro values measured from Barnett Shale and typing of produced hydrocarbons indicate significant uplift and erosion. Furthermore, the thermal history of the formation was enhanced by hydrothermal events along the Ouachita thrust front and Mineral Wells-Newark East fault system.
Stratigraphy and thermal maturity define two gas. This report presents a compilation of vitrinite reflectance Ro data based on analyses of samples of drill cuttings collected from 74 boreholes spread throughout the Permian Basin of west Texas and southeast New Mexico fig. The resulting data consist of 3 to 24 individual Ro analyses representing progressively deeper stratigraphic units in each of the boreholes table 1. The samples, Cambrian-Ordovician to Cretaceous in age, were collected at depths ranging from ft to more than 22, ft.
The R0 data were plotted on maps that depict three different maturation levels for organic matter in the sedimentary rocks of the Permian Basin figs. These maps show depths at the various borehole locations where the R0 values were calculated to be 0. In the western Delaware Basin , for example, higher maturation is observed at relatively shallow depths, resulting from uplift and eastward basin tilting that began in the Mississippian and ultimately exposed older, thermally mature rocks.
Maturity was further enhanced in this basin by the emplacement of early and mid-Tertiary intrusives. Volcanic activity also appears to have been a controlling factor for maturation of organic matter in the southern part of the otherwise tectonically stable Northwest Shelf Barker and Pawlewicz, Depths to the three different Ro values are greatest in the eastern Delaware Basin and southern Midland Basin.
This appears to be a function of tectonic activity related to the Marathon-Ouachita orogeny, during the Late-Middle Pennsylvanian, whose affects were widespread across the Permian. Evolution of overpressured and underpressured oil and gas reservoirs, Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma, Texas , and Kansas.
Departures of resistivity logs from a normal compaction gradient indicate that overpressure previously extended north of the present-day overpressured zone. These indicators of paleopressure, which are strongest in the deep basin , are mapped to the Kansas-Oklahoma border in shales of Desmoinesian age. The broad area of paleopressure has contracted to the deep basin , and today the overpressured deep basin , as determined from drillstem tests, is bounded on the north by strata with near normal pressures hydrostatic , grading to the northwest to pressures that are less than hydrostatic underpressured.
Thus the pressure regime in the northwest portion of the Anadarko Basin has evolved from paleo-overpressure to present-day underpressure. Using pressure data from drillstem tests, we constructed cross sections and potentiometric maps that illustrate the extent and nature of present-day underpressuring. Downcutting and exposure of Lower Permian and Pennsylvanian strata along, and east of, the Nemaha fault zone in central Oklahoma form the discharge locus where pressure reaches near atmospheric.
From east to west, hydraulic head increases by several hundred feet in each rock formation, whereas elevation increases by thousands of feet. The resulting underpressuring of the aquifer-supported oil and gas fields, which also increases from east to west, is a consequence of the vertical separation between surface elevation and hydraulic head. A 1,ft thick cap of Permian evaporites and shales isolates the underlying strata from the surface, preventing re-establishment of a normal hydrostatic gradient.
The article's purpose is to compare case studies of computer technology use at two rural elementary schools across two international settings. This study uses the Social Construction of Technology SCOT theory to guide this comparative investigation of how elementary school teachers and students in East Texas and South India construct meaning for….
Ecological, political and social challenges of prescribed fire restoration in east Texas pineywoods ecosystems: The effectiveness of prescribed fire restoration of forested sites in three state parks in east Texas , USA was studied. Two sites consisted of mixed shortleaf Pinus echinata Mill. The third site was a longleaf pine Pinus palustris Mill. Total petroleum system assessment of undiscovered resources in the giant Barnett Shale continuous unconventional gas accumulation, Fort Worth Basin , Texas.
Undiscovered natural gas having potential for additions to reserves in the Mississippian Barnett Shale of the Fort Worth Basin , north-central Texas , was assessed using the total petroleum system assessment unit concept and a cell-based methodology for continuous-type Unconventional resources. The Barnett-Paleozoic total petroleum system is defined in the Bend arch-Fort Worth Basin as encompassing the area in which the organic-rich Barnett is the primary source rock for oil and gas produced from Paleozoic carbonate and clastic reservoirs.
Using framework geology and historical production data, assessment of the Barnett Shale was performed by the U. Geological Survey using vertical wells at the peak of vertical well completions and before a transition to completions with horizontal wells. The assessment was performed after 1 mapping critical geological and geochemical parameters to define assessment unit areas with future potential, 2 defining distributions of drainage area cell size and estimating ultimate recovery per cell, and 3 estimating future success rates.
Two assessment units are defined and assessed for the Barnett Shale continuous gas accumulation, resulting in a total mean undiscovered volume having potential for additions to reserves of The greater Newark East fracture-barrier continuous Barnett Shale gas assessment unit represents a core-producing area where thick, organic-rich, siliceous Barnett Shale is within the thermal window for gas generation Ro???
The Tertiary section of the Oujioang and Quiontang Depressions of the East China Sea Basin consists of at least eight rift-related depositional sequences identified seismically by regionally significant onlap and truncation surfaces. These sequences are calibrated by several wells including the Wenzhou permitting extrapolation of petroleum system elements using seismic facies analysis. Gas and condensate correlated to non-marine source rocks and reservoired in sandstone at the Pinghu field to the north of the study area provides an known petroleum system analogue.
Synrift clinoform seismic facies prograding from the northwest footwall correlate with non-marine to marginal marine conglomerate, sandstone and siltstone, and are interpreted as possible delta or fan-delta facies with reservoir potential although porosity and permeability is low within the Wenzhou well. Post-rift thermal sag sequences are characterized by parallel and relatively continuous seismic reflections and locally developed clinoform packages.
These facies correlate with porous and permeable marine sandstone and siltstone. Shales of potential sealing capacity occur within marine flooding intervals of both the synrift and post-rift sequences. Traps consist of differentially rotated synrift fill, and post-rift inversion anticlines. Major exploration risk factors include migration from the synrift coaly source rocks to the post-rift porous and permeable sandstones, and seismic imaging and drilling problems associated with extensive Tertiary igneous intrusions.
Morrowan sedimentation in the Orogrande basin , west Texas and south-central New Mexico. Morrowan strata in the Hueco and Franklin Mountains reflect deposition within a shallow, gradually subsiding, carbonate shelf lagoon. Postulated environments fluctuated between open shelf lagoon with localized shoaling, restricted inner shelf lagoon, and peritidal settings.
Variations in depth were slight, probably not exceeding several tens of meters within the photic zone. The La Tuna Formation Franklin Mountains was deposited near the axis center of the Orogrande basin ; the lower division of the Magdalena limestone Hueco Mountains , 30 mi east , was deposited mi west of the paleoshoreline. Sedimentologically, it was a wide expanse of predominantly quiet-water carbonate sedimentation with subordinate argillaceous influex and coarser peripheral clastics.
The Orogrande basin , a stratigraphic feature, corresponds to a blanket deposit of shallow epeiric carbonates. Climatic and orographic effects are invoked to explain the contrasting style of clastic sedimentation in the Delaware and orogrande basins , east and west of the Pedernal uplift. Analysis of Morrowan carbonates reveals no evidence of cyclicity, major transgressions or regressions, or local tectonic activity.
Deposition was stable and in equilibrium with a gradually subsiding shallow basin. Based on lithologic, faunal, biostratigraphic, and paleogeographic criteria, the lower division is both laterally and temporally equivalent with the La Tuna Formation. Accordingly, the latter term is advocated in favor of the former, which lacks both priority and formal status.
Gas-shale play with multi-trillion cubic foot potential. The Mississippian Barnett Shale serves as source, seal, and reservoir to a world-class unconventional natural-gas accumulation in the Fort Worth basin of north-central Texas. The formation is a lithologically complex interval of low permeability that requires artificial stimulation to produce.
The most actively drilled area is Newark East field, currently the largest gas field in Texas. Newark East is mi2 km2 in extent, with more than producing wells and about 2. Cumulative gas production from Barnett Shale wells through was about 0. Wells in Newark East field typically produce from depths of ft m at rates ranging from 0. Estimated ultimate recoveries per well range from 0. Efforts to extend the current Barnett play beyond the field limits have encountered several challenges, including westward and northward increases in oil saturation and the absence of lithologic barriers to induced fracture growth.
Patterns of oil and gas occurrence in the Barnett, in conjunction with maturation and burial-history data, indicate a complex, multiphased thermal evolution, with episodic expulsion of hydrocarbons and secondary cracking of primary oils to gas in portions of the basin where paleotemperatures were especially elevated. Recent assessment by the U. Geological Survey suggests a mean volume of Recovery of a significant portion of.
The State of Texas has commissioned the Bureau of Economic Geology to install a seismic network TexNet which, when complete, will employ 22 permanent and 33 portable new stations. In the area of west Texas , where it consists of two major sedimentary basins - the Delaware and Midland basins , 7 new permanent stations have been deployed. Starting from January , TexNet has detected several hundreds of small-sized earthquakes in the area adjacent to the Pecos township.
In response to the detection of a surprisingly high occurrence of seismicity in this area, we have increased the number of seismic stations through the addition of portable deployments. The depth range of the detected seismicity is from subsurface down to 14 km depth. Based on the initial hypocentral information determined by the TexNet's routine process, we further relocated these earthquakes using the double-difference relocation method i.
At the same time, we employed statistic regression i. The constrained origin times and relocated earthquake hypocenters, along with the velocity information of subsurface from a local sonic-log profile, are used in tomographic inversion to update the crustal velocity model for the Delaware basin and surrounding area. Preliminary results suggest that both local topography and subsurface structures have strong influence on locating earthquakes that occurred at a shallower depth range in west Texas.
A subsurface layer with Vp of 4. Our next steps are to include more local and teleseismic data recorded by TexNet as well as by stations from the previous US Transportable Array. Inclusion of these data will increase ray-crossing coverage within the volume of the velocity model, resulting in a. Radiogenic heat production in sedimentary rocks of the Gulf of Mexico Basin , south Texas. Radiogenic heat production within the sedimentary section of the Gulf of Mexico basin is a significant source of heat. Radiogenic heat should be included in thermal models of this basin and perhaps other sedimentary basins.
Based on measurements of the radioactive decay rate of?? Heat production rates range from a low of 0. Mean heat production rates for Wilcox sandstones, Frio sandstones, Wilcox mudrocks, and Frio mudrocks are 0. A one-dimensional heat-conduction model indicates that this radiogenic heat source has a significant effect on subsurface temperatures.
If a thermal model were calibrated to observed temperatures by optimizing basal heat-flow density and ignoring sediment heat production, the extrapolated present-day temperature of a deeply buried source rock would be overestimated. Coal resources for part of the Wilcox group Paleocene-Eocene , northeast Texas. The Wilcox Group of northeast Texas contains shallow less than ft coal deposits that are mined for use in mine-mouth electric power generating plants.
The coal deposits, which are lignite in apparent rank Pierce et al. The coal zones and associated strata in the northeast assessment area generally dip to the south and southeast at 28 or less toward the axis of the East Texas Basin. The northeast Texas resource assessment area includes parts of nine counties Figure 2. Assessment of selected water-quality data collected in the lower Red River main stem basin , Texas , The Texas part of the Red River Basin has been divided into five reaches or subbasins fig.
Baldys and Phillips discuss various components and the associated scope of study of each of the five reaches. Data from the first reach studied—reach 2, the Wichita River Basin—were presented in a fact sheet by Baldys and Phillips This fact sheet presents an assessment of data collected at 11 sites during —98 for reach 1—the lower Red River main stem Basin from the confluence of Cache Creek downstream to the Texas -Arkansas State Line fig. Soil Conservation Service is actively engaged in the installation of flood and soil erosion reducing measures in Texas under the authority of the "Flood Control Act of and " and "Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act" Public Law , as amended.
This watershed-development program will have varying but important effects on the surface and ground-water resources of river basins , especially where a large number of the floodwater-retarding structures are built. Hydrologic investigations of these small watersheds were begun by the Geological Survey in and are now being made in 12 study areas fig.
The 12 study areas were chosen to sample watershed having different rainfall, topography, geology, and soils. In five of the study areas, North, Little Elm, Mukewater, little Pond-North Elm, and Pin Oak Creeks , streamflow and rainfall records were collected prior to construction of the floodwater-retarding structures, thus affording the opportunity for analyses of the conditions "before and after" development. A summary of the development of the floodwater-retarding structures in each study areas of September 30, , is shown in table 1.
Objectives of the Texas Small Watersheds ProjectThe purpose of these investigations is to collect sufficient data to meeting the. Oil and gas fields in East Coast and Arctic basins of Canada. The East Coast and Arctic basins of Canada have been under serious hydrocarbon exploration for over 20 years. Although the density of drilling is low, extensive seismic control has outlined a high proportion of the structures in these basins and the stratigraphic framework of the basins is known.
From west to east , the basins include the Beaufort basin , the Sverdrup basin of the high Arctic and the adjacent Parry Island foldbelt, the rift basins of Baffin Bay, and the continental-margin basins offshore Labrador, the Grand Banks and the Scotian Shelf. Surprises, both good and bad, await the explorer. The physical environment of these Canadian basins ranges from severe to almost impossible. As exploration has proceeded, great strides have been made in coping with the physical environment; however, the costs are becoming increasingly onerous, and the appreciation is growing regarding the cost, risk and time that will be involved in developing production from those resources.
Even from a national sense of supply security, the vast reserves of oil in the tar sands and in-situ recovery deposits of heavy oil in western Canada will provide a competitive ceiling that will limit future development of frontier basins to those where production costs are not significantly higher than those of the tar sands. Soil Conservation Service is actively engaged in the installation of flood and soil erosion reducing measures in Texas under the authority of "The Flood Control Act ot and " and ''Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act" Public Law , as amended.
In June , the Soil Conservation Service estimated approximately 3, structures to be physically and economically feasible for installation in Texas. This watershed-development program will have varying but important effects on the surface- and ground-water resources of river basins , especially where a large number of the floodwater-retarding structures are built. Basic hydrologic data are needed to appraise the effects of the structures on water yield and the mode of occurrence of runoff. Hydrologic investigations of these small watersheds were begun by the Geological Survey in and are now being made in 11 areas fig.
The 11 study areas were choson to sample watersheds having different rainfall, topography, geology, and soils. In four of the study areas Mukewater, North, Little Elm, and Pin Oak Creeks , streamflow and rainfall records were collected prior to construction of the floodwater-retarding structures, thus affording the opportunity for analyses to the conditions before and after" development. Structures have now been built in three of these study areas.
A summary of the development of the floodwater-retarding structures on each study area as of September 30, , is shown in table 1. Future freshwater availability is a pressing issue in Texas due to frequent drought events and fast population growth. Even though the science community has well investigated future temperature trends, it is still unclear whether precipitation will increase or decrease in this region.
Furthermore, there is a lack of understanding on how the changing climate will affect water resources across different spatial-temporal scales. This study aims to quantify the impacts of climate change on surface hydrology at the basin scale under different future emission scenarios.
The analysis is carried out in three steps. First, the observed streamflows are used to evaluate the performance of VIC simulations forced by CMIP5 models during historical period. Second, VIC outputs under multiple CMIP5 model scenarios from to are analyzed to identify how soil moisture, evapotranspiration, runoff, and routed streamflows change in time and space.
Third, the spatial patterns of seasonal temperature, seasonal precipitation, and the Palmer Drought Severity Index PDSI —over four year periods , , and —are used to pinpoint the regions that will be most affected by climate change among the 13 Texan river basins. Furthermore, the role of groundwater in meeting the increasing needs for water supply is discussed. The results are expected to contribute to various future water resources management decisions in Texas.
Understanding the spatial variability of deep-water facies is critical to deep-water research because of its revealing information about the relationship between desity flow processes and their resultant sedimentary sequences. The Cherokee Group in the Anadarko Basin , northeastern Texas Panhandle, provides an opportunity to investigate an icehouse-greenhouse Pennsylvanian hybrid system that well demonstrates the intricacies of vertical and lateral facies relationships in an unconfined fan-delta fed deep-water slope to basinal setting.
The stratigraphic section ranges in thickness from to m. The cyclic sedimentation and foreland basin tectonics resulted in a complex stratal architecture that was sourced by multiple areas of sediment input. This investigation consists of wireline-log and core data. Five-thousand wireline logs were correlated in an area of over sq km to map out six depositional sequences that are separated by major flooding events. These events are correlative over the whole area of study.
Six cores, that sample nearly the complete section, were described for lithofacies. Lithofacies are recognized based on depositional features and mineralogy: The integration of isopachs of depositional sequences with the lithofacies has allowed the delineation of the spatial and temporal evolution of the slope to basin -floor system.
Thin-to-thick bedded turbidites, hyperconcentrated density flow deposits slurry beds , and debris and mud flow deposits were observed and can be used to better predicte lithofacies distributions in areas that have less data control. These mixed siliciclastic and carbonate deposits can be carrier beds for the hydrocarbons generated from the enclosing organic-rich TOC ranges from 0. Reconnaissance of the chemical quality of surface waters of the Neches River basin , Texas.
The kinds and quantities of minerals dissolved in the surface water of the Neches River basin result from such environmental factors as geology, streamflow patterns and characteristics, and industrial influences. As a result of high rainfall in the basin , much of the readily soluble material has been leached from the surface rocks and soils.
Consequently, the water in the streams is usually low in concentrations of dissolved minerals and meets the U. Public Health Service drinking-water standards. In most streams the concentration of dissolved solids is less than ppm parts per million. The Neches River drains an area of about 10, square miles in eastern Texas. From its source in southeast Van Zandt County the river flows in a general southeasterly direction and empties into Sabine Lake, an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. In the basin the climate ranges from moist subhumid to humid, and the average annual rainfall ranges from 46 inches is the northwest to more than 52 inches in the southeast.
Annual runoff from the basin has averaged 11 inches; however, runoff rates vary widely from year to year. The yearly mean discharge of the Neches River at Evadale has ranged from to 12, cubic feet per second. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime.
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