earthquakes

Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

"A high school student and her friends are already having a rough day--and then the earthquake hits. Working through personal issues suddenly doesn't seem like such a big deal compared to struggling to stay alive"--.

After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.

Presents information on earthquakes, in simple text with illustrations, discussing how they happen, what their devastating effects can be, where the danger zones are, and how they can be predicted. www.av2books.com (book code Q609595, security question "world".

When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years. Includes an author's note which provides factual information on tsunamis.

Presents a brief look into the causes and effects of earthquakes; along with information on four major earthquakes in history and earthquake facts.

Questions and answers provide information about volcanoes and earthquakes, covering such aspects as why, how, when, and where these phenomena occur.

Explains how and why earthquakes occur, and looks at the devastation caused by the 1964 earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska.

This low-level text introduces how earthquakes form, the damage they cause, and how their damage can be prevented.