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:	9781620657096
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Series:	You Choose: Survival Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	1,124,494
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	610L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Rachael Hanel has written several nonfiction books for children, in addition to essays and news and magazine articles. Many of her books have focused on history and social studies. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism and history and a master's degree in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She works as a writer, college instructor, and university administrator from her home base of Madison Lake, Minnesota.

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