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Gwin, Minrose

Summary: A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gwin 2018

Gilbert, Julie

Summary: In 1919 Boston, an orphaned eighth-grade girl plans to head west to become a cowboy until the giant tank of molasses in her neighborhood explodes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GIL

Griner, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRI

Cambor, Kathleen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CAM

Cambor, Kathleen.

Summary: The lives of the people of Johnstown, Pennsylvania are irreparably changed when the South Fork dam, which separates the wealthy from the lower class part of town, bursts on Memorial Day weekend 1889.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

Fink, Jennifer Natalya

Summary: "On the night of December 2, as 1984 drew to its Reaganomic close, an explosion at an American-owned factory in Bhopal, India, released untold amounts of toxic gas on uncounted numbers of people, creating a human and environmental disaster of insurmountable proportions. Known as the Bhopal disaster, it once dominated international headlines, and is now barely remembered. Yet Bhopal remains...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: FC2 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIN

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