Air Disasters
- ISBN-10
- 1612476244
- ISBN-13
- 9781612476247
- Series
- Air Disasters
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 92
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-09-01
- Publisher
- Saddleback Educational Publishing
- Author
- Ann Weil
Description
This series of nonfiction readers will grab a student's interest from the very first page! Designed with struggling readers in mind, these riveting 92-page books offer short chapters on significant disasters. Each chapter is its own mini-book, which includes a timeline, key terms, and interesting facts. Fascinating black and white photographs keep the pages turning. A bibliography encourages further topical reading. Disasters are inherently frightening, riveting, and involving. Grabbed straight from the headlines, these disasters leave tragedy, destruction, and years of anguish: 1977 Tenerife, 1972 Chile, 1982 The Potomac River, Shot Down, Terrorism, Captain Sully Sullenberger, and more.
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