Earthquake: San Francisco, 1906

Earthquake: San Francisco, 1906
ISBN-10
1481400800
ISBN-13
9781481400800
Series
Earthquake
Category
Juvenile Fiction
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2014-07-22
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Authors
Kathleen Duey, Karen A. Bale

Description

When two young strangers meet by chance on the day of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, they struggle to survive the terror of crumbling buildings, fire, looting and chaos. Simultaneous.

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