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Amistad Novela juvenil Earthquakes Earthquakes Fiction Earthquakes Juvenile fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 Fiction Novels in verse San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Fiction San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Juvenile fiction Survival Juvenile fictionHarmony, Cynthia
Summary: After a devastating earthquake hits, a little girl and her neighbors help each other rebuild their city. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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Summary: Fatima is having fun camping with her friends, but she is afraid the dark. She has to get through a ruined city at night, avoiding the dangers of crumbling buildings, cracks in the ground and fallen masonry without power or light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRYVecchini, Silvia
Summary: "Matteo, Guilia, and Federico have ordinary lives: they spend time with friends, help out their families, go to school, and deal with the many mood swings that come with growing up. Then, in a single night, everything changes. The ground shakes. An earthquake devastates their town and their security. But after everything is gone, life must go on. Anger and fear affect everyone in the community,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VECCarman, Patrick.
Summary: Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC CarJohnson, Kristin F.
Summary: "After a devastating earthquake, a teen and her family are threatened by yet another disaster. A tsunami destroys their house. Their life in paradise is shaken as they try to survive the next blow"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2017
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC JOHTarshis, Lauren.
Summary: Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TARCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Tarshis 2012Tarshis, Lauren
Summary: 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 neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series TarshisArnold, Caroline
Summary: Inspired by the logs and adventures of Juliet Fish Nichols, a female lightkeeper who kept the light shining through the fog following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake,
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARNKessler, Liz
Summary: Emily is headed to a tropical island for a relaxing vacation with friends and family. And this time, Emily promises her best friend, Shona, there will be absolutely no adventure just plenty of fun. But somehow excitement always seems to find Emily, and before she knows it, she ends up on the other side of a powerful waterfall on a forgotten island no one else can get to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series KesslerAlsaid, Adi
Summary: James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover. They couldn't be more different, but seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light--and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually... a button. Which she presses. Which may or may not unwittingly break...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ALSActon, Vanessa
Summary: "A high school student and her friends are already having a rough day--and then the earthquake hits. Working through personal issues suddenly doesn't seem like such a big deal compared to struggling to stay alive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2017
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ACTMessner, Kate
Summary: This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESSalisbury, Graham.
Summary: In 1975, eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a tsunami.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2007
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC SALOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC OSBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Osborne 2012Copies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC OSBBurg, Ann E.
Summary: In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURCollins, Ailynn
Summary: "The date is April 18, 1906. The city of San Francisco has just been rocked and shaken by a huge earthquake. Even worse, the quake causes huge fires to break out across the city. Can you escape your damaged home before it collapses? Will you join the firefighters as they try to save the city from the devastating fires? Will you be accused of looting after helping a boy escape from some rubble?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIBlundell, Judy.
Summary: It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BLUWatson, Jesse Joshua.
Summary: A young boy finds hope when he is given an old soccer ball to play with in the wake of Haiti's devastating earthquake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WATWillems, Mo
Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILPerish, Patrick
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about how to survive an earthquake. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.6 PERSpencer, Renè
Summary: Two children lost at sea must overcome a language barrier if they want to find a way home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.461 CHIGriner, Susan
Summary: When the Great Kanto Earthquake strikes Tokyo on September 1, 1923, twelve-year-old Fumiko must navigate the ensuing chaos and confusion in her fight for survival. Includes information about the Great Kanto Earthquake, a glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023