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1) Volcanoes!
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Photographs and text introduce kids to differend kinds of volcanoes, where they are located, how and why they erupt, and other interesting data about volcanoes.
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On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered--all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them.
3) Ashfall
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After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.
4) Volcanoes
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Discusses what happens during a volcanic eruption, the destruction and hazards they can cause, and offers advice on how to stay safe during one.
6) Volcanoes
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"Simple text and supportive images introduce beginning readers to the physical characteristics of volcanoes"--Provided by publisher.
7) Volcanoes
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Lists one hundred facts about the world's volcanoes, such as how volcanoes form, how lava flow creates islands, and which were the largest eruptions in the historical record.
11) My volcano
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Climate change, time travel, startup culture, and volcanic eruptions intertwine in this sui generis outing from Stinzi (Vanishing Monuments). Told in a series of buzzing numbered fragments, the narrative whirls around a volcano rising in Central Park that looks like Mount Fuji. As the volcano grows, Stintzi builds out the wide-ranging narrative with jump cuts to a Nigerian folklore scholar in Tokyo; Makayla Brooks, a staffer at the emotion-managing...
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The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano — Krakatoa.
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster — was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly
...14) Mexico
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This book tells about life in Mexico. It describes the land, the wildlife, its cities, its holidays, and the food they eat.
15) Volcanes!
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Photographs and simple text introduce early readers to volcanoes.
18) Volcanologist
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"Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as a volcanologist. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis"--Provided by publisher.
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"'New York Times' bestselling author, explorer, journalist, and geologist Simon Winchester who's been shaken by earthquakes in New Zealand, skied through Greenland to help prove the theory of plate tectonics, and even charred the soles of his boots climbing a volcano looks at the science, technology, and societal impact of these inter-connected natural phenomena"--
20) Sunrise
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Nearly a year after the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, survival has become harder than ever and Alex and Darla must risk everything to try to create a community that can withstand the ongoing disaster.