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Disasters : natural and man-made catastrophes through the centuries / Brenda Z. Guiberson.

by Guiberson, Brenda Z.

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Henry Holt and Co., c2010.

Natural disasters -- Juvenile literature.

Disasters -- Juvenile literature.

9780805081701 (hbk. : alk. paper)

0805081704 (hbk. : alk. paper)

228 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

"Christy Ottaviano Books."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-218) and index.

Smallpox: the parasitic horror -- Great Chicago fire: October 8, 1871 -- Johnstown flood: May 31, 1889 -- San Francisco shaking: April 18, 1906 -- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire: March 25, 1911 -- Titanic: April 15, 1912 -- Blue skin and bloody sputum: pandemic flu of 1918 -- No water, no jobs, no relief: the Dust Bowl of the 1930s -- Mammoth shakes and monster waves, destruction in 12 countries: December 26, 2004 -- Hurricane Katrina and the drowning of New Orleans: August 29, 2005.

Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude. In this collection of ten well-known catastrophes ... Brenda Guiberson explores the causes and effects, as well as the local and global reverberations of these calamitous events.

A Junior Library Guild selection

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