Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives

by Elizabeth Rusch

Book Overview

"At 11:35 p.m., as Radio Armero played cheerful music, a towering wave of mud and rocks bulldozed through the village, roaring like a squadron of fighter jets." Twenty-three thousand people died in the 1985 eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz. Today, more than one billion people worldwide live in volcanic danger zones. In this riveting nonfiction book--filled with spectacular photographs and sidebars--Rusch reveals the perilous, adrenaline-fueled,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547503504
• ISBN13: 9780547503509
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8