Description
Title: I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011
Series: I Survived
Condition: Used – Good
Author(s): Lauren Tarshis
Topic(s): Social Themes, Survival Stories, Historical, Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, 21st Century, Friendship, United States
Format: Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Details: The next book in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series will place readers right in the middle of the deadly Joplin Tornado of 2011.The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri in 2011. It was part of a larger tornado outbreak in the spring of that year and reached a maximum width of nearly 1 mile during its path through the southern part of the city, killing 158 people, injuring over 1,000 and caused damages amounting to a total of $2.8 billion, making it the costliest single tornado in U.S. history. Lauren will bring her signature intensity to this distinctly American natural disaster, placing a young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947.
Extra Author Details: Dawsonˏ Scott [Illustrator]
ISBN: 9780545658485
OCLC_OWI: 2581156605
