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Natural disasters devastate communities. They reshape the landscape and can alter people's ways of life in an area for years after the event. Learn all about Earthquakes and Tsunamis. Find out how they form, where they are most to happen and how scientists study them through diagrams and case studies. Explore how natural disasters work by cracking them open and looking at them from the inside. How do they happen? How are they destructive? What happens...
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An informative and compelling book for ages 12 to 15 about both the science and human sides of natural disasters, full of hands-on investigative activities and research projects along with real-world connections that encourage kids to dive deeper into a topic that directly affects them. News reports from around the world offer detailed descriptions of wildfires, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, and more. While these kinds of events might seem horrifically...
84) After America
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March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government headquartered in Seattle directs the reconstruction of an entire nation-and the battle for New York City has begun.Pirates and foreign militias are swarming...
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"In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed--naively--that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them. Erratic weather, blistering drought, rising seas, and ecosystem collapse now affect every inch of the globe. Increasingly, we no longer look to stop climate change, choosing instead...
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"This title focuses on blizzards and gives information on what they are, how to prepare for them, and how to survive. The title is complete with beautiful, colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." -- Amazon.com.
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"This title focuses on hurricanes and gives information on what they are, how to prepare for them, and how to survive. The title is complete with beautiful, colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.
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"THRIVING AFTER TRAUMA deals with overcoming trauma including physical and sexual abuse, war-related injury, loss due to tragedy or illness, and natural disasters. Real stories and practical tools shed light on how to let go of shame, guilt, anger, and despair after a traumatic experience. It is possible to grieve, move beyond, and fully live again"--
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This title focuses on fires and gives information on what they are, how to prepare for them, and how to survive. The title is complete with beautiful and colorful photographs, simple text, and a database for added activities. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
93) Wetter
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"There's no question that storms like hurricanes have gotten stronger around the world in recent years. Many places have more rain at other times too. An increasingly wet climate in some places is yet another side effect of climate change. In this introductory volume, readers encounter simple text and ideas addressing the seriousness of increased precipitation around the world and the ways in which it can harm people, animals, and the environment"--Provided...
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A shocking natural disaster rocks the country. And, only one woman is prepared to handle the fallout. A post-apocalyptic thriller series begins.
When a major crisis rocks the nation, supply lines are shut down everywhere.
The small town of Moose Creek feels the effects almost immediately as they begin to run out of food.
In the remote regions of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the residents are hit again, when the power is cut off to them in the...
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This title focuses on floods and gives information on what they are, how to prepare for them, and how to survive. The title is complete with beautiful and colorful photographs, simple text, and a database for added activities. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Every summer, thousands flock to the Jersey Shore for its beaches and boardwalks, but lurking in the depths beyond is a historic threat to tranquility. Dozens of shark attacks and interactions have occurred throughout Jersey Shore history that reveal bravery, heartbreak and the hubris of man. A boy paid a gruesome price for teasing a trapped shark in the first recorded attack in 1842. The three bloody attacks of 1960 left one man's limb amputated....
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"In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Yui, fleeing her violent husband, and Hiyori, a young orphan, are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga, a lost house, perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea. While helping to rebuild Kitsunezaki, the three adapt to their new lives and supernatural new home, slowly healing from their troubled...
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When natural disasters happen they grab headlines around the world. People, creatures, and the environment are all impacted when nature gets out of control. Natural disasters can be upsetting to live through, but scientists today better understand their causes and how we can protect ourselves and others. Natural Disasters: Investigate Earth's Most Destructive Forces with 25 Projects teaches readers about some of the natural disasters throughout history,...
100) 48 hours
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"From the author of the smash hit, New York Times bestselling One Second After series comes a thriller in which the survival of humanity itself is at stake. The countdown is on. In less than forty eight hours, Earth will be hit by a major solar storm. At first, it is thought to be a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that will severely damage our world's electronic infrastructure. A crisis to be certain, but one that can be survived--until something far...
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