| Description |
76 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 x 29 cm. |
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age Children |
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age Children |
| Series |
Scientists in the field
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Scientists in the field.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 75) and index. |
| Contents |
Sleeping giant -- Never again -- Mount Pinatubo -- To evacuate or not to evacuate? -- Volcano training camp -- How do you watch a volcano you can't see? -- Mount Merapi's next move -- The mystery of the missing ash -- What happened here? -- Living and working in the shadow of a volcano -- Volcanic vocabulary. |
| Summary |
"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. Rusch reveals the perilous, adrenaline-fueled, life-saving work of an international volcano crisis team (VDAP) and the sleeping giants they study, from Colombia to the Philippines, from Chile to Indonesia. |
| Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection |
| Audience |
Middle School |
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Grade 4-6 |
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1000 Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader 6.9 |
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Reading Counts! 8.5 |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo. |
| Subject |
Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature.
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Volcanic eruptions -- Juvenile literature.
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Volcanic eruptions. |
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Volcanic activity prediction -- Juvenile literature.
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Volcanic activity prediction. |
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Volcanic hazard analysis -- Juvenile literature.
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Volcanic hazard analysis. |
| Genre/Form |
Juvenile works.
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| Added Author |
Uhlman, Tom, photographer.
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| Added Title |
Volcanoes and the science of saving lives |
| ISBN |
0547503504 (hardback) |
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9780547503509 (hardback) |
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