Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Rusch, Tom Uhlman

Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives

Scientists in the Field

Elizabeth Rusch, Tom Uhlman

80 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction childrens middle grade science informative medium-paced

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“At 11:35 p.m., as Radio Armero played cheerful music, a towering wave of mud and rocks bulldozed through the village, roaring like a squadron of fighter jets.” Twenty-three thousand people died in the 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz. ...

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