The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men

The Mississippi is in flood. Families have been driven from their homes, and the river keeps rising. When young Ross Planford's Airedale, Rex, begins barking frantically at nothing, Ross senses something is wrong. His friend Anton is still trapped in the house on the low ground, and the water is coming fast. What begins as a warning from a faithful dog becomes a desperate race against a killer flood, as one boy and his courageous companion must battle nature itself to reach a friend who may already be too far gone. Written in the early twentieth century, this adventure novel weaves pulse-pounding rescue scenes with genuine fascination for the science of weather, giving readers a vivid portrait of the U.S. Weather Bureau's heroic efforts to predict and warn against catastrophic storms. At its heart, this is a story about the extraordinary courage ordinary people can find when someone they love is in danger, and the unbreakable bond between a boy and his dog that turns a frightened animal's instincts into humanity's salvation.