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Series
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then the most powerful earthquake in American history--the Good...
Author
Series
Emily Windsnap volume 7
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Emily is headed to a tropical island for a relaxing vacation with friends and family. And this time, Emily promises her best friend, Shona, there will be absolutely no adventure just plenty of fun. But somehow excitement always seems to find Emily, and before she knows it, she ends up on the other side of a powerful waterfall on a forgotten island no one else can get to.
Author
Language
Español
Description
Explore how volcanoes are formed and what causes an eruption in this fascinating Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Featuring bright, vivid photos, explanatory diagrams, informational text, and stimulating facts, this fascinating title engages readers in the scientific and natural causes behind volcanoes and their eruptions.
5) Eruption
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
7) Beyond me
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
March 11, 2011. An earthquake shakes Japan to its core. A tsunami crashes into Japans coast. Everything changes. In the aftermath of the natural disasters that have struck her country, eleven-year-old Maya is luckier than many. Her family didnt lose their home, their lives, or each other. But Maya still cant help feeling paralyzed with terror, and each aftershock that ripples out in the days that follow makes her fear all over again that her luck...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
Mr. Baker's eighth grade class thought they were in for a normal field trip to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. But when an earthquake hits, their field trip takes a terrifying turn. The students are plunged into an underground lake...and their teacher goes missing. They have no choice but to try and make their way back above ground, even though no one can agree on the best course of action. The darkness brings out everyone's true self. Supplies dwindle...
Author
Series
Bear Grylls adventures volume 6
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Fatima is having fun camping with her friends, but she is afraid the dark. She has to get through a ruined city at night, avoiding the dangers of crumbling buildings, cracks in the ground and fallen masonry without power or light.
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
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Description
"Deep-sea mining for gold and silver has triggered a chain of dangerous earthquakes, and it's up to Benji Franklin and his fantastic problem solving skills to put an end to the shakeups and save the nearby islands from disaster. Will Benji's super-smarts alone be enough to quiet the underwater tremors, or are some problems too big for even the Kid-Zillionaire?" --
12) Shock waves
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
GN 450L
Physical Desc
113 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Miles Morales is a normal school kid who happens to juggle school at Brooklyn Visions Academy while swinging through the streets of Brooklyn as Spider-Man. After a disastrous earthquake strikes his birthplace of Puerto Rico, Miles springs into action to help set up a fundraiser for the devastated island. But when a new student's father goes missing, Miles begins to make connections between the disappearance and a giant corporation sponsoring Mile's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just turned twelve, Lily is the oldest of the three children in her Chinese American family living in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake hits; her family has survived the quake, but as the city starts to burn Lily and her younger brother are separated from the others and must get to the safety of Oakland across the bay and hope that the rest of their family and friends are there waiting for them--but between the fire and the anti-Chinese violence...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
Twins Justine and Perry have left their home in Australia and embarked on the road trip of a lifetime in the Pacific Northwest. It's been a year since their dad lost his battle with cancer and Justine became the sole caregiver for her autistic brother, Perry. Now Perry has been accepted into an assisted-living residence in their hometown, Brisbane, Australia, but before he takes up residence, they're seeking to create the perfect memory. For Perry,...
15) Earthquake shock
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a sudden earthquake hits during a visit to the skate park, Joey and his friends are trapped on opposite sides of a collapsed overpass and must rescue each other while enduring aftershocks and making their way safely home.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the fight for survival during a major earthquake"--Provided by publisher.
Youre in the middle of one of the most unpredictable natural disasters an earthquake. No place is safe as the ground shudders, shakes, and splits. How will you survive as the world crashes around you? Will you: Experience an earthquake far from civilization in rural Alaska? Be trapped in a large U.S. city during an earthquake? Fight to survive during an earthquake...
17) Outrun the moon
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from poverty in Chinatown, and she gains admittance to a prestigious finishing school through a mix of cunning and bribery. She soon discovers that getting in was the easiest part, and must carve a niche among the spoiled heiresses. When the earthquake strikes on April 18, Mercy and her classmates are forced to a survivor encampment, but her quick-witted leadership rallies them to help in the tragedy's...
18) The living
Author
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
19) The living
Author
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.