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Tsunami : the true story of an April Fools' Day disaster
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April Fools' Day, 1946: a sunny Hawaiian school day that started out as any other--until the ocean began to pull back, exposing the sea floor. Suddenly, someone looked up: now a wall of water was r...
April Fools' Day, 1946: a sunny Hawaiian school day that started out as any other--until the ocean began to pull back, exposing the sea floor. Suddenly, someone looked up: now a wall of water was racing toward them. This was no April Fool's joke--it was a deadly tsunami. Learn about this and other tsunamis from history.
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- Creator
- Gail Langer Karwoski ; illustrated by John MacDonald
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Plain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 64 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781581960440, 1581960441
- OCLC
- ocm63183683
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64).
- April Fools' Day -- Harbor at Hilo -- Deadly history -- Tsunami science -- Sound the warning -- Further information
Subjects
- Tsunamis -- Juvenile literature.
- Hawaii -- History -- Juvenile literature.
- Tsunamis.
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- Hawaii -- History.
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