Can You Survive an Earthquake?: An Interactive Survival Adventure

by Rachael Hanel

Overview

You’re in the middle of one of the most unpredictable natural disasters an earthquake. No place is safe as the ground shudders, shakes, and splits. How will you survive as the world crashes around you? Will you: Experience an earthquake far from civilization in rural Alaska? Be trapped in a large U.S. city during an earthquake? Fight to survive during an earthquake in Japan and the tsunami that follows it?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429699792
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Series:	You Choose: Survival Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	1,095,130
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	610L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Rachael Hanel was born in Minnesota, where she still resides. She’s the author of We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter, and you’re likely to find her roaming around cemeteries.

Table of Contents

An unpredictable moment — Disaster in Alaska — Earthquake in the city — A quake and a big wave — Surviving an earthquake.

Interviews

• Exciting reader choices based on survival knowledge and common sense • Short survival quiz at the end of the book that allows readers to show what they’ve learned • Maps and charts illustrating survival tips and techniques