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Series
I survived volume 13
Language
English
Description
In 1937, eleven-year-old Hugo Ballard and his family are making a transatlantic journey on the Hindenburg zeppelin, but as the airship gets ready to land, a blast rocks it, sparking a fire that puts Hugo in a desperate race to escape the flames.
3) On my honor
Author
Language
English
Description
When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Examines the tragic mission of the space shuttle Challenger, including the brave crew that flew the shuttle and lost their lives, the causes of the explosion, and the investigation after the disaster"--Provided by publisher.
6) Air crashes
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores such aircraft tragedies as the Hindenberg, TWA flight 800, and United flight 232, and looks at how we can improve airline safety.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Adam says he can't remember where he was for the two months he went missing in a Florida swamp. That's not true. He does remember. The truth: He was driving with his parents, and the car crashed when his father swerved to avoid colliding with a giant Sasquatch-like creature standing in the highway. Haunted by his parents' disappearance and hounded for claiming to have seen Bigfoot, Adam sets off into the deadly wilderness on a hunt for answers as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the dangers of launching spacecraft, covering the Russian Mars space probe explosion, the Apollo 1 fire, the Apollo 12 lightning strike, and the Challenger explosion.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In History Comics: The Challenger Disaster, we turn the clock back to January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts boarded the space shuttle Challenger on what would be a routine mission. All eyes and cameras were on crew member Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher, who was set to become the first private citizen in space. Excitement filled the air as the clock counted down to liftoff. But at T-plus seventy-three seconds after launch, the unthinkable happened......
12) On my honor
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
90 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When his best friend drowns while they are swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cheaney's novel opens with a bus accident on a torrentially rainy night and the promise that one character will be famous by book's end; she then rewinds nine months with news of a robbery in the sleepy Hidden Acres subdivision. But these early tinges of suspense wind up being peripheral as the novel unfolds. Over nine months, Cheaney (My Friend the Enemy) follows the stories of nine characters, fourth through seventh graders, who ride Mrs. B's school...
15) The crossroads
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main. And Bird, his twelve-year-old...
18) Cyclone
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Riding the Cyclone, the world famous Coney Island rollercoaster was supposed to be the highlight of twelve-year-old Nora's summer, but right after they disembark, Nora's thirteen-year-old cousin Riley falls to the ground and into a coma that Nora thinks is her fault.
19) The in-between
Author
Language
English
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Description
Cooper is lost. Ever since his father left their family three years ago, he has become distant from his friends, constantly annoyed by his little sister, Jess, and completely fed up with the pale, creepy rich girl who moved in next door, who won't stop staring at him. So when Cooper learns of an unsolved mystery his sister has discovered online, he welcomes the distraction. It's the tale of a deadly train crash that occurred a hundred years ago in...
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