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

by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426307799
• ISBN13: 9781426307799
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.5" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8