earthquakes

This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new family who will care for her.

Early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally -- and he finds himself stranded in the middle of San Francisco as it crumbles and burns to the ground. Does Leo have what it takes to survive this devastating disaster?.

Readers can choose how the story ends in different adventures about survival during an earthquake.

Eleven-year-old Elizabeth Morgan would rather hang out with the boys, but when her parents send her to San Francisco to be refined by her Aunt Sally, a massive earthquake sends t he city reeling, and Elizabeth must rely on her survival skills to find her way to safety.

Explores the science behind earthquakes.

Discusses how earthquakes form and offers information on some of history's worst earthquakes and their devastating effects, including landslides, collapsed buildings and fires.

Learn about earthquakes and volcanoes and how the earth's surface is always changing.

"After a devastating earthquake, a teen and her family are threatened by yet another disaster. A tsunami destroys their house. Their life in paradise is shaken as they try to survive the next blow"--.

"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"--.

"In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake. One early April morning in 1906, the people of San Francisco were jolted awake by a mammoth earthquake--one that registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale. Not only was there major damage from the quake itself but broken gas lines sparked a fire that ravaged the city for days. More than 500 city blocks were destroyed and over 200,000 people were left homeless. But the city quickly managed to rebuild, rising from the ashes to become the major tourist destination it is today"--Provided by publisher.