washington (state)

Chronicles the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, presenting footage of the volcano before, immediately after, and ten years after the blast, and discusses the destructive and restorative power of nature.

On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered--all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them.

Presents twenty-two intertwining tales depicting the determination of contemporary life on the Spokane Indian Reservation.

Cast off by her old friends, Cinderella agrees to help a new student deal with the stepsisters she will soon have, and meantime, a former friend tries to prevent Cinderella from dancing the lead in their tap recital.

Near the end of World War II, Ian McKenzie is sent to a summer camp to tame his wild ways, and while he is there he works with his cabin of misfits to build a chimney for the camp, learning along the way how to solve problems.

The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiance Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory.

While training new members for the FIRESTORMERS the world s newest, most elite wildfire fighting crew a group of recruits goes missing inside a massive blaze. Their trainer, former special operations soldier Heath Rodgers, blames himself for their mistakes. If the new recruits are going to survive, Rodgers must lead the Firestormers into the flames before the past comes back to burn him.

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 sent shockwaves across North America as volcanic ash rained down on eleven U.S. States and four Canadian provinces, claiming the lives of fifty-seven people. Weaves science and history with personal narrative, revealing what happened to those who lived and died that day.

Describes the destruction caused by the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.