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1) Tsunamis
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses tsunamis and areas where they are most prevalent, the damage they can inflict, some specific tsunamis in history, and explains how to survive this type of disaster.
Author
Series
I survived volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village, nearly toppling his uncle's house. Then the ocean waters rise and Ben and his family are swept away-and pulled apart-by a terrible tsunami.
Now Ben is alone, stranded in a strange country a million miles from home. Can he fight hard enough to survive...
3) Earthquakes
Author
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the nature and measurement of earthquakes and the devastation that they can cause on land and sea, including the giant seismic waves known as tsunamis.
4) Tsunamis
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of tsunamis. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
5) Nation
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Readers will discover the science behind earthquakes and tsunamis and learn how first responders aid in the coping, healing, and rebuilding of the affected communities post-disaster. Focused on 21st Century content, the SEL- (social-emotional learning) and inquiry-based sidebars encourage young readers to think, create, guess, and ask questions. Includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, bibliography, and sidebars"--
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During a party a tsunami hits the coast of California, and Denver and a handful of others escape death and are swept out to sea. Of course, one of her fellow castaways is none other than her ex-BFF, Abigail, who can barely stand the sight of her. Trapped on a small boat with the most popular kids in school and waiting to be rescued, Denver wonders what might kill her first--dehydration, sunstroke, or the girl she used to think of as a sister?
9) The big wave
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.
11) Raging sea
Author
Series
Undertow trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Lyric Walker was there when the Alpha arrived. Like many, she wondered if they were invaders, never suspecting that they were on the run from a greater terror. When the real threat arrived, it came with a tidal wave that destroyed Coney Island. Everything and everyone Lyric ever cared for, including the Alpha prince Fathom, was either killed or lost forever. It changed the world. Now the military fights a war it cannot win against an enemy that will...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Tsunamis
Author
Series
Publisher
Pop!
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text explore the science behind how tsunamis form, where they most commonly occur, and how people can best stay safe during one.
14) Maelstrom
Author
Series
Rifter series (Peter Watts) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
This is the way the world ends:
A nuclear strike on a deep sea vent. The target was an ancient microbe-voracious enough to drive the whole biosphere to extinction-and a handful of amphibious humans called rifters who'd inadvertently released it from three billion years of solitary confinement.
The resulting tsunami killed millions. It's not as through there was a choice: saving the world excuses almost any degree of collateral damage.
Unless, of...
15) Tsunamis
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Deep underwater, something shifts. Ocean water pulls back from the shore, then comes flooding back. Tsunami! These massive waves happen when earthquakes or other actions cause huge amounts of water to shift. Learn about tsunamis, pay attention to warnings, and stay safe"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When faced with nature's life and death circumstances, how would you respond? Survival stories recounts true stories of people overcoming adversity and surviving against the odds. Readers will learn which decisions survivors made that led to their rescues as well as tips and tricks on how to survive in similar situations."--Back cover.
18) Inferno in Tokyo
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Over 900,000 copies sold in the series! This easy-to-read adventure is number 20 in this long-running, successful series and is now available in softcover. The Imagination Station has been malfunctioning for several adventures now, handing out the wrong gifts and traveling unexpected paths. Patrick and Beth must use their courage, strength, and resilience to help others and survive dangers as they travel through time and space and get caught up in...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/MCD
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
On March 11, 2011, a 120-foot-high tsunami smashed into the northeast coast of Japan, leaving more than eighteen thousand people dead. It was Japan's single greatest loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. Ghosts of the Tsunami is the intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through...
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