Disaster! cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.6
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 1746
Points per Word 0.000286
Page Count 32
Points per Page 0.015625

Description

Provides information on a variety of disasters around the world in our history.

Quick Summary

This book packs The Most Wonderful Thing in the World jaw-dropping disasters in history into fast-paced, minute-long reads that make kids feel like they're witnessing volcanoes explode, cities shake, and ships sink right before their eyes. Young readers will love flipping through terrifyingly cool true stories about famous firestorms, devastating earthquakes, and epic shipwrecks that prove truth is stranger and scarier than fiction. If You Were There in 1492: Everyday Life in the Time of Columbusr kid devours Guinness World Records books or loves any title in the "Who Would Win?" series, they'll be hooked on these bite-sized historical thrills. This is an ideal pick for kids in grades 4 through 6, especially those who can't resist a good scary story as long as it actually happened.