Author:Jay Williams & Raymond Abrashkin
Illustrated: Ezra Jack Keats
Grade Level: 3rd - 6th
Pages:144
Challenge your students, ask them, what would you do if your hometown was suffering from a drought? Would you be a hero? Would you help out? Ration? Well, Danny Dunn and a group of his friends decide to help out a local teacher build a drought fighting machine. The drought fighting friends try to create clouds so it will rain all over the town. Join the team to see if the gang of friends is able to become hometown heroes.
Though this book is fiction, it is still content relevant. The book would be great to use when discussing natural disasters in your classroom. A drought, a less thought of disaster has long lasting effects on a community. Danny Dunn and pals use science to determine what would be best to fight the drought off. I would not hesitate in using this as a supplementary text in a science classroom. The book was
published in 1959, but it still relevant in terms of content. It would be a cool to investigate how engineers are trying to create clouds in order to make rain. The book is way ahead of the game. Great read for children who are interested in fictional stories it is an added bonus that they get to learn about weather along the way.
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