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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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Main Author: Hoobler, Dorothy (Author)
Other Authors: Hoobler, Thomas (co-author.), Hammond, Ted (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2016]
Series:What was--?
Subjects:
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Earthquakes > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction.
Fires > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?
  • The Eve of Destruction
  • The Earth Dragon Awakes
  • No Place Is Safe
  • Fire!
  • Escape!
  • Deeds of Bravery
  • Blasts in the Night
  • Rich and Poor
  • Hope
  • To the Edge of Defeat
  • The Fires Die
  • Rebuilding
  • Can It Happen Again?
  • Timelines.

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