The Flood Disaster (FRIGHTMARES)

By Peg Kehret

Book Overview

In this addition to the Iowa Children's Choice Award nominated series, Warren and Betsy travel back to the Johnstown Flood of 1889 to save a survivor's young sister and help fulfill her dreams.

Warren Spalding and Betsy Tyler have been assigned to do a paper on the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889. This time they've decided not to use the Instant Commuter time-travel device... It's just too dangerous. After all, they nearly died on two previous assignments.

Instead, they interview ninety-five-year-old Doc Keaton, whose parents survived the flood. But when they learn that Doc still mourns his little sister who died, Warren and Betsy secretly agree to travel back to 1889 to find eight-year-old Anna and save any lives they can.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416991093
• ISBN13: 9781416991090
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

The dam has broken!

This book is great!It has all the "ingrediants" for a good book!Like suspense buy it you'll like it.

A really good book!

Ever since their trips back in time to the eruption of Mount Saint Helens in 1980 and a Minnesotta blizzard in 1940 nearly ended in disaster, Warren and Betsy have vowed never again to use the Instant Communter, invented by Warren's grandfather, to travel back in time. When assigned a report on the Johnstown Flood in 1889, they interview a ninety year old man whose parents survived the flood, years before he was born, but whose sister, Anna, died. Betsy and Warren decide to travel back in time to attempt to save Anna's life. But can two kids from the present actually change history - and will they be able to get back to their own time without complications?