Can You Survive the Great San Francisco Earthquake?: An Interactive History Adventure

by Ailynn Collins

Overview

The date is April 18, 1906. The city of San Francisco has just been rocked and shaken by a huge earthquake. Even worse, the quake causes huge fires to break out across the city. Can you escape your damaged home before it collapses? Will you join the firefighters as they try to save the city from the devastating fires? Will you be accused of looting after helping a boy escape from some rubble? With dozens of possible choices, it’s up to YOU to survive one of the worst earthquakes ever recorded.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663958945
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2022
Series:	You Choose: Disasters in History
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	630L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Ailynn Collins learned a lot about writing from her teachers at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. She has always loved reading science fiction stories about other worlds and strange aliens. She enjoys creating new characters and worlds for her stories, as well as envisioning what the future might look like. When not writing, Collins enjoys spending her spare time reading and playing board games with her family. She lives near Seattle, Washington, with her husband and loveable dogs.

Table of Contents

About Your Adventure 5

Chapter 1 The End of the World? 7

Chapter 2 Escaping A Nightmare 11

Chapter 3 Battling the Blaze 49

Chapter 4 Chinatown Disaster 81

Chapter 5 Aftermath 103

More About Earthquakes 106

Other Paths to Explore 108

Bibliography 109

Glossary 110

Read More 111

Internet Sites 112

About the Author 112

Interviews

High-interest presentation of key historical events that supports the C3 Framework for multiple perspectives of a single event;

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2022

Gr 4–6—These interactive history adventures offer readers three different characters to follow through the disaster, making over a dozen choices to try and survive. Each character is based on actual records of survivors and victims of the original event, and those individuals are identified in the back matter. Illustrations and photos, some of them archival, emphasize the destruction and devastation of the disaster. Suggested reading and websites for further investigation are offered. Other extras include information on how earthquakes or hurricanes are rated, advances in weather forecasting, or the importance of Red Cross relief efforts. Besides the opportunity to explore each of the possible choices within the narrative, there are also a few additional scenarios suggested in "Other Paths to Consider." VERDICT Would work well with a unit on natural disasters or as individual reading for history buffs.

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