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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Great Alaska Earthquake is the largest and most powerful recorded earthquake in US history. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving this terrifying natural disaster pounds with page-turning action and heartwarming hope. 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...
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Series
I survived volume 6
Language
English
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Description
When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"The people of northern California were used to living with the threat of wildfires. But nothing could have prepared them for the devastating 2018 fire season, the deadliest in 100 years and the most destructive in history. In the 20th 'I Survived' book, readers join eleven-year-old Josh as he leaves his affluent New Jersey home for the rural northern California town where his mother was born and raised. Still reeling from the life-changing challenges...
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Series
I survived volume 22
Language
English
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Description
The Wellington snow slide of 1910 was-and still is-the deadliest avalanche in America's history. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving the frozen nightmare pounds with page-turning action and heartwarming hope. The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"George Calder, de diez años, está súper emocionado porque él y su hermanita Phoebe están en el famoso Titanic, cruzando el Atlántico junto a su tía Daisy. El barco está lleno de rincones fascinantes que explorar pero, cuando George se aventura en el compartimento de equipaje de primera clase, una terrible explosión sacude el barco. De repente, hay agua por todas partes y la vida de George cambia para siempre"--Amazon.com.
"Ten-year-old...
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Series
I survived volume 8
Language
English
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Description
While visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death, Ben and his family are swept away-and pulled apart-by a terrible tsunami.
Author
Series
I survived volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"A Leo le gusta ser rejpartidor de periódicos en San Francisco. Necesita el dinero y el trabajo le proporciona, además, la libertad de explorar la maravillosa ciudad que crece junto al nuevo siglo. Coches tirados por caballos comparten las calles con elegantes automóviles; familias y comercios, provenientes de todas partes, se instalan a diario en sus vecindarios. Es un lugar en el que todo parece posible. Sin embargo, una mañana de primavera,...
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Series
I survived volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Chet Roscow ha comenzado a sentirse a gusto en Elm Hills, Nueva Jersey. Tiene un trabajo, tres buenos amigos y ha encontrado el lugar perfecto para nadar. Pero todo cambia con la llegada de un gran tiburón blanco que ataca cerca de donde vive. Todos hablan de lo mismo. Así que cuando Chet ve algo raro en el agua, piensa que es su imaginación... ¡hasta que se encuentra cara a cara con un sanguinario tiburón!
In July, 1916, Chet Roscow is fascinated...
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