Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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2001., 4.6; Ages 3-6, G. Stevens Call No: J OUT 551.22 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Natural disasters: an imagination library seriesSummary Note: Explains why earthquakes occur, looks at the damage they cause, and discusses methods of predicting quakes and protecting against them.
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-- Twelve worst earthquakes of all time[2019], Age 9-13, 12-Story Library Call No: J HIST 551.2209 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: All-time worst disasters.Summary Note: Disasters are fascinating, awe-inspiring, and scary, all at the same time. Lean the facts about many of the worst disasters in human history. Then get some tips on how to prepare for disasters and stay safe.--
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[2014]., 4.8; Ages 3-6, Scholastic Inc. Call No: Y MON Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Stay alive Volume: 2Summary Note: When an earthquake causes a fort in Maine to collapse, a group of kids on a field trip are abandoned and they need to find a way to survive.
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-- City tossed & broken2013., 4.7; 5-8, Scholastic Call No: YS DEA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
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c2002., Ages 4-8, Scholastic Call No: J OUT 551.22 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: SeeMore readers. Level 2Summary Note: Discusses the nature, causes, and destructive capabilities of earthquakes and describes some notable examples.
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c2000., 5-8, Tyndale House Call No: YS JEN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Left behind--the kids Volume: 12Summary Note: The Tribulation Force, a group of teens left behind on Earth after God's rapture, struggles to survive an extraordinary earthquake.
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-- Disaster changes life forever2000., 5.2; Ages 3-6, Chelsea House Publishers Call No: [Fic] HIN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: American adventureSummary Note: George Lankford, a fifteen-year-old in early nineteenth-century Cincinnati whose main interests include creating a steam engine and avoiding a friendship with the badly scarred new boy, Charles Lidell, finds his life radically changed when an earthquake hits town.
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c2001., Ages 3-6, Random House Call No: G OSB Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Magic tree house Volume: #24Summary Note: The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
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2005, MPAA rating PG-13, Platinum Disc Corporation Call No: DVD VID Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An engineer travels to Russia to inspect a nuclear power plant where his ex-wife works and lives with their children when an earthquake hits.
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2012., 4.0; 5-8, Scholastic Press Call No: Y SMI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Storm runnersSummary Note: Chase, heading south of the border with Nicole Rossi, faces a threat to his survival while searching for the Rossi Brothers' Circus after an earthquake in Mexico.
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2012., Ages 9-13, Scholastic Press Call No: J AUD SMI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Storm runners Volume: #3Summary Note: "He and his friends have made it through the longest night of their lives, but their adventures are far from over. Now they're headed south to Mexico to track down the missing Rossi Brothers' Circus. With a volcano about to erupt after a massive earthquake. Chase has never faced such a serious threat to his survival." -- dust jacket.
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[2017], Ages 9-12, Orca Book Publishers Call No: J OUT 551.22 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "This fully illustrated, nonfiction book for middle readers focuses on earthquakes, how they happen and what you need to know."--
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c2013, White Feather Press Call No: FIC STE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hell Happened Volume: #3
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-- San Francisco earthquake, 1906c2012., Ages 3-6; Ages 7-10, Scholastic Call No: G TAR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: I survivedSummary Note: Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco --but early one spring morning in 1906 Leo's world is shaken, when he finds himself stranded in the middle of San Francisco as it crumbles and burns to the ground.
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2014, Ages 7-10; Middle School, Scholastic Inc. Call No: J OUT 363.34092 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: I survived : true stories Volume: #1Summary Note: From the author of the I Survived series come five true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters. From a group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction -- and, against all odds, survival.
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[2018], Adults, Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group Call No: FIC PET Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Golden Gate secrets Volume: #3Summary Note: "After getting left at the altar in 1906, Kenzie Gifford flees to San Francisco, determined never to love again. When an earthquake strikes, Kenzie finds herself facing a hidden danger--and two men set on winning her heart. With her life--and heart--on the line, who can she trust?"--
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[2021]., Adults, Berkley Call No: FIC MEI Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly beautiful. While Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, his odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right. Then one early-spring evening, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. The first, pretty and pregnant, is standing on her doorstep. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest, grieving the loss of everything she once loved. The fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and, ultimately, their belief that love can overcome fear. From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War and As Bright as Heaven comes a gripping novel about the bonds of friendship and mother love, and the power of female solidarity"--
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[2021]., Adults, Delacorte Press Call No: FIC STE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment’s hesitation, Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbors into her mostly undamaged home as the recovery begins. These people did not even realize that movie star Meredith White was living on their street. Now, they are sharing her mansion, as well as their most closely kept secrets. Without the walls and privacy of their own homes, one by one, new relationships are forged. .
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[2024]., Adult, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC QUI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles"--
