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Arnold, Caroline Collins, Ailynn Powell, Patricia Hruby Quinn, Kate Tarshis, LaurenCollins, Ailynn
Summary: "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?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC COLArnold, Caroline
Summary: Inspired by the logs and adventures of Juliet Fish Nichols, a female lightkeeper who kept the light shining through the fog following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake,
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARNQuinn, Kate
Summary: San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction QuinnTarshis, Lauren
Summary: Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village, nearly toppling his uncle's house. Then the ocean waters rise and Ben and his family are swept away, and pulled apart, by a terrible tsunami. Now Ben is alone, stranded in a strange country a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TARPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017