Disasters

The Meet Your Community Workers illustrated nonfiction book Firefighters at Work teaches ...

This close-up look at how scientists keep people safe by predicting and studying natural ...

A slight tremble shakes the room. Suddenly, a violent force rocks the house's foundation ...

With a violent explosion, a volcano erupts, endangering all life within miles. Ash clouds...

Powerful gusts and heavy rains starting in the ocean can mean only one thing: hurricane! ...

As rain beats down and lightning flashes across the sky, a siren blares loudly in the dis...

Sickness is a fact of everyday life. But when sickness spreads from person to person rapi...

When the Titanic was built, many people thought the massive ship was unsinkable. Today it...

It's hurricane season. Scientists have detected a storm at sea, and it's growing. Learn a...

Air travel is one of the safest methods of transportation, but when a disaster happens, i...

Tells the story of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the subsequent fires. W...

Tells the gripping story of the devastating 1888 blizzard that suddenly exploded across t...

A little water never hurt anybody, but a lot of water can wreak havoc! Surging waves of w...

With waves crashing down from heights of 100 feet (30 meters) or more, tsunamis are power...

The sky darkens and it begins to rain. Hours later the rain still falls heavily. Somewher...

The sky grows dark. Lightning flashes. Thunder booms. Soon a wailing siren fills the air....

The winds pick up while heavy waves crash on the beach. A few hours later screaming winds...

Overturned cars. Destroyed houses. Snapped power lines. The powerful winds of a tornado c...

Dangerous landslides. Collapsed buildings. Blazing fires. The violent shaking of earthqua...

Dangerous winds. Torrential rains. Toppled trees. The roaring winds and sheets of rain br...

Hazardous sinkholes. Major mudslides. Uprooted trees. The heavy rains during a flood can ...

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005, causing incredible devastat...

Book six in the True Rescue series for young readers, this pulse-pounding account of disa...

Ignite interest in wildfires—how they happen, why they're important, when they're d...

Inspire your students to know and appreciate their community workers with this illustrate...

In Earthquakes, early fluent readers learn about what happens during an earthquake, inclu...

In Hurricanes, early fluent readers learn about the conditions that turn a thunderstorm i...

In Landslides, early fluent readers learn what happens in a landslide and about the condi...

In Blizzards, early fluent readers learn about the conditions that turn a gentle snowstor...

In Droughts, early fluent readers learn about the conditions that lead to and result from...

In Tornadoes, early fluent readers learn about what happens during a tornado, including h...

In Tsunamis, early fluent readers learn what happens during a tsunami, including how tsun...

In Volcanoes, early fluent readers learn what volcanoes are, why they form, and what make...

In Avalanches, early fluent readers learn about the conditions that turn a snowy slope in...

In Heat Waves, early fluent readers learn about the conditions that lead to and result fr...

In Sinkholes, early fluent readers learn about the conditions that lead to and result fro...

The earth is full of natural dangers that everyone should know how to survive. Step up an...

Learn about the treacherous journey across the Sierra Nevada mountain range tha...

Learn about the deadly and unexpected blizzard that slammed the Midwestern United States ...