The Great Molasses Flood: Density Is the Whole Story
Your child is going to laugh at the words molasses flood. Let them, and then hand them the weight of a bucket of it, because that is where the laughing...
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Pompeii: The Disaster That Saved Its Own Evidence
Nobody in Pompeii knew they were living next to a volcano, and Marcus's father, who trusts science over monsters, has nothing in his science yet that would tell him.
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005: Why They Could Not Leave
Every child who reads about Katrina asks the same thing inside two pages. Why did anybody stay? This book answers that before they have finished asking it.
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Night of the Lions and the Lion That Hunts People
A healthy lion in country with enough game in it has no particular interest in you. The ones that turn to people have almost always run out of other options.
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The Dust Bowl, 1935: Drought Was Not the Disaster
Blow across a plate of flour and most of it stays put. It takes bigger grains bouncing along the ground to knock the fine stuff up where the wind can...
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California Wildfires, 2018: A Fire Starts Years Early
Your child thinks a wildfire begins when something catches fire. It begins about ten years earlier, in a wet spring, and that is the one idea this book is well...
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