Gail Karwoski
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
April Fools' Day, 1946: a sunny Hawaiian school day that started out as any other--until the ocean began to pull back, exposing the sea floor. Suddenly, someone looked up: now a wall of water was racing toward them. This was no April Fool's joke--it was a deadly tsunami. Learn about this and other tsunamis from history.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Tells the story of the wreck of the "Sea Venture," a ship that set out from England in 1609 to bring supplies to the struggling Jamestown Colony, and ran aground in Bermuda after springing a leak in the midst of a hurricane, and discusses the miraculous survival of all the ship's passengers who were later able to continue their journey.