Tornado!: The Story Behind These Twisting, Turning, Spinning, and Spiraling Storms by Fradin, Judy

Tornado!: The Story Behind These Twisting, Turning, Spinning, and Spiraling Storms (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781426307799)

Vendor: Judy Fradin
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Tornado!: The Story Behind These Twisting, Turning, Spinning, and Spiraling Storms by Fradin, Judy

Tornado!: The Story Behind These Twisting, Turning, Spinning, and Spiraling Storms

$16.95
Tornado!: The Story Behind These Twisting, Turning, Spinning, and Spiraling Storms by Fradin, Judy

Tornado!: The Story Behind These Twisting, Turning, Spinning, and Spiraling Storms

$16.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
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Through riveting narrative and eyewitness stories, young readers learn what it's really like to be caught in a monster tornado. Captivating first-person accounts and news reports detail survivors' experiences of the most destructive tornadoes ever to occur in the United States. And thrill-seekers' reports add to the drama and suspense. Historical perspectives on the human experience of tornadoes and scientific perspectives on why twisters happen and how to keep people safe add to the intrigue of this fascinating topic. Ample back matter will help students find sources to write well-informed and compelling reports.

Author: Judy Fradin
ISBN-10: 1426307799
ISBN-13: 9781426307799
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2011
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 10.24h x 9.53w x 0.43d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 148288 / Tornado! the Story Behind These Twisting, Turning, Spinning, and Spiraling Storms


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2011 pg. 50
School Library Journal 10/01/2011 pg. 157
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2011 pg. 426 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
By Judy Fradin
By Judy Fradin
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Judy Fradin and her husband, Dennis, have written more than 150 books between the two of them. They are renowned for their thoroughly researched work about harrowing times in history. The couple have coauthored Tornado!: The Story Behind These Twisting, Turning, Spinning, and Spiraling Storms and several of National Geographic's Witness to Disaster books, including Earthquakes and Droughts.

Dennis Fradin and his wife, Judy, have collectively written more than 150 books. This dynamic couple is well known for their carefully researched work recounting harrowing times in history. Their many awards include the School Library Journal Best Book of the Year for 5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight from Slavery.

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