Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

Little Elliot, Big Fun

Little Hero Boy LCPL Anthony Aguirre

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

The Whatif Monster Chapter Book Series: A New Friend for Jonathan James

The Last Spell: The Thickety

Everyones life is touched at some time by disaster. But some disasters loom so large they are international events. The stories of those who live through such devastating events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, and floods are both heartbreaking and compelling. Often they are inspiring and uplifting. SOS: Stories of Survival tells the tales of young survivors of such disasters teenage coal miners trapped deep below the surface of the earth in Springhill, Nova Scotia; children who ran to escape the poisonous exploding gases spewing from Mont Pelee on Martinique; teens who rode the roofs of their homes in Pennsylvanias roaring Johnstown Flood; and youngsters who survived, but still suffer from, the nuclear accident in Chernobyl.Archival photos document these astounding sagas.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes

Ed Butts, 2011

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

Kadir Nelson, Ellen Levine, 2007

We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

Deborah Hopkinson, 2020

Little Elliot, Big Fun

Mike Curato, 2016

Little Hero Boy LCPL Anthony Aguirre

Christina Salinas Castillo, 2023

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

Steve Sheinkin, 2014

The Whatif Monster Chapter Book Series: A New Friend for Jonathan James

Michelle Nelson-Schmidt, 2019

The Last Spell: The Thickety

Andrea Offermann, J.A. White, 2017