juvenile nonfiction / history / modern

Profiles fifteen activists and groups who were inspired by the life and work of Mohandas Gandhi to use nonviolent protest as a means of bringing about social change.

From the fourteen-year-old lone survivor of the shark attacks of 1916, to the nine-year-old who survived the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, here are four unforgettable survivors who managed to beat the odds.

"From the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series come five harrowing true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters. From a group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these unforgettable kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction -- and, against all odds, survival. Read their incredible stories: The Children's Blizzard, 1888 The Titanic Disaster, 1912 The Great Boston Molasses Flood, 1919 The Japanese Tsunami, 2011 The Henryville Tornado, 2012"--.