What was the San Francisco Earthquake?
"In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake. One early April morning in 1906, the people of San Francisco were jolted awake by a mammoth earthquake--one that registered 7.8...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
[2016]
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| Series: | What was--?
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| Summary: | "In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake. One early April morning in 1906, the people of San Francisco were jolted awake by a mammoth earthquake--one that registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale. Not only was there major damage from the quake itself but broken gas lines sparked a fire that ravaged the city for days. More than 500 city blocks were destroyed and over 200,000 people were left homeless. But the city quickly managed to rebuild, rising from the ashes to become the major tourist destination it is today. Here's an exciting recount of an incredible disaster"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. |
| Audience: | Ages 8 to 12. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 108) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780399541599 0399541594 9780399542121 0399542124 9781484497579 1484497570 9781518219115 151821911X 9780606393294 0606393293 |
| Author Notes: | In addition, the Society for School Librarians International chose their book Showa: The Era of Hirohito for a best book award in 1991, and they have been cited for excellence by the Library of Congress, the Parents' Choice Foundation, Bank Street College, the International Reading Association, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the New York Public Library. (Bowker Author Biography) |
