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1) Eruption
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
An adventure that will shake you up! That's what JAck and Annie get when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to California in 1906. As soon as they arrive, the famous San Fransisco earthquake hits the city. Can Jack and Annie find the final writing that they need to help Morgan save Camelot? Or will San Francisco be destroyed first?
3) Aftershocks
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When a major earthquake hits California, trapping seventeen-year-old Ruby with Charlie, a near-stranger, in a laundromat, they struggle to stay alive and hopeful with only memories and each other's voices to sustain them.
Author
Language
English
Description
On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect–until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out, people begin to scream….
In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.… Sarah Sloane, the beautiful...
In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.… Sarah Sloane, the beautiful...
Author
Series
I survived volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Nadine goes to live with her father in Miami while her cousin Magdalie, raised as her sister, remains behind in a refugee camp, dreaming of joining Nadine but wondering if she must accept that her life and future are in Port-au-Prince.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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.
Juliet Fish Nichols is the lightkeeper on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay Area and her job is to keep the light shining and the fog bell ringing, even when there is an earthquake. Inspired by her logs, includes biographical and historical notes.
12) Mi ciudad sings
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a devastating earthquake hits, a little girl and her neighbors help each other rebuild their city. Includes author's note.
Author
Series
Emily Windsnap volume 7
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emily is headed to a tropical island for a relaxing vacation with friends and family. And this time, Emily promises her best friend, Shona, there will be absolutely no adventure just plenty of fun. But somehow excitement always seems to find Emily, and before she knows it, she ends up on the other side of a powerful waterfall on a forgotten island no one else can get to.
15) Before takeoff
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover ... seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light--and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually ... a button. Which she presses ... Before they can figure up from down, strange, impossible things start happening: snowstorms form inside the B terminal; jungles...
Author
Series
Animal antics A to Z volume 17
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Quentin Quokka's questions help out during school when an earthquake strikes during a concert.
18) Earthquake shock
Author
Series
Disaster strikes (Marlane Kennedy) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a sudden earthquake hits during a visit to the skate park, Joey and his friends are trapped on opposite sides of a collapsed overpass and must rescue each other while enduring aftershocks and making their way safely home.
20) Wildfire run
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A relaxing retreat to Camp David turns deadly after a faraway earthquake sets off a a chain of disastrous events that traps the president's twelve-year-old son, Luke, and his two friends within the compound.
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