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001 2009018908
003 DLC
005 20101021085404.0
008 090505s2010 nyuab j b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009018908
020 $a0805081704 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780805081701 (hbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn324731240
037 $bJunior Library Guild$nhttp://www.juniorlibraryguild.com
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050 00 $aGB5014$b.G83 2010
082 00 $a904$222
100 1 $aGuiberson, Brenda Z.
245 10 $aDisasters :$bnatural and man-made catastrophes through the centuries /$cBrenda Z. Guiberson.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHenry Holt and Co.,$c2010.
300 $a228 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
586 8 $aA Junior Library Guild selection
500 $a"Christy Ottaviano Books."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-218) and index.
505 0 $aSmallpox: the parasitic horror -- Great Chicago fire: October 8, 1871 -- Johnstown flood: May 31, 1889 -- San Francisco shaking: April 18, 1906 -- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire: March 25, 1911 -- Titanic: April 15, 1912 -- Blue skin and bloody sputum: pandemic flu of 1918 -- No water, no jobs, no relief: the Dust Bowl of the 1930s -- Mammoth shakes and monster waves, destruction in 12 countries: December 26, 2004 -- Hurricane Katrina and the drowning of New Orleans: August 29, 2005.
520 $a"Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude. In this collection of ten well-known catastrophes ... Brenda Guiberson explores the causes and effects, as well as the local and global reverberations of these calamitous events."--barnesandnoble.com
650 0 $aNatural disasters$vJuvenile literature.
650 0 $aDisasters$vJuvenile literature.
650 1 $aNatural disasters.
650 1 $aDisasters.