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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.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 6
Language
English
Description
This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new family who will care for her.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Just turned twelve, Lily is the oldest of the three children in her Chinese American family living in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake hits; her family has survived the quake, but as the city starts to burn Lily and her younger brother are separatedfrom the others and must get to the safety of Oakland across the bay and hope that the rest of their family and friends are there waiting for them--but between the fire and the anti-Chinese violence...
7) When the earth dragon trembled: a story of Chinatown during the San Francisco earthquake and fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Han Liu rejects his father's attempts to teach him traditional Chinese values, but when an earthquake and fire strike Chinatown, separating Han from his father, a book of family proverbs is all Han has left to guide him. Includes author's note.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Callie struggles to come to terms with the disappearance of her father, but eventually chooses to believe that he has traveled back to the San Fransisco earthquake of 1906.
Callie is struggling to come to terms with the disappearance of her father. When friends take her to an exhibit documenting the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, she thinks she sees her father in one of the photographs. Chapters alternate between Callie, and the experiences of...
Author
Series
Magic tree house) volume 24
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
La casa del árbol lleva a Annie y Jack a California, en 1806, en el momento justo del famoso terremoto de San Francisco. ¿Podrán Annie y Jack encontrar el último escrito para que Morgana salve al reino de Camelot? ¿Lo lograrán antes de que San Francisco quede en ruinas?
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
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