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Tsunami
The True Story of an April Fools' Day Disaster
By Karwoski, Gail Langer
- ISBN
- 978-1-58196-044-0
- Publisher
- Darby Creek Publishing
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
Gr 4-7 Focusing on the wave that struck Hawaii in1946, Karwoski presents the event from a variety of viewpoints. The destruction of Hilo harbor leads off, citing accounts of victims from the Japanese neighborhood known as Shinmachi, and is followed by the story of the destruction of a school on Laupahoehoe Point. The author describes the cause of this disaster, a 7.8-scale earthquake in the Aleutians, and discusses other signifi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
