Earthquakes For Kids

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, a “lively, witty, and often touching” (People) novel that tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life’s most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journey of new motherhood. Becky is a plump, sexy chef...

Step into the bustling city of Philippi with Paul and Silas and witness a story of incredible faith and miraculous power! When a simple act of kindness—freeing a young girl from a troubling spirit—angers a group of greedy men, Paul and Silas are dragged before the city's leaders, beaten, and thrown into the deepest, darkest prison cell. But even with their feet locked in stocks and their backs raw with pain, they refuse to be silenced. As they fill the midnight air with songs of praise, the very foundations of the prison begin to shake!

Welcome to LA? Nineties' Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who's on shaky ground—in more ways than one. Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, is...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega—and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how...

In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake. One early April morning in 1906, the people of San Francisco were jolted awake by a mammoth earthquake—one that registered...