Junior, a seven-year-old boy, is trapped under his house after the Port-au-Prince earthquake, and his vivid imagination helps him find the strength to survive.
Presents photographs and first-person accounts of the earthquake the happened in Haiti on January 12, 2010, describing the devastation and the efforts of countries and organizations to bring aid to the Haitians.
how the world came to save Haiti and left behind a disaster
Katz, Jonathan
2013
An assessment of how Haiti has fared after the 2010 earthquake reveals how the country continues to suffer from poverty, illness, and a broken infrastructure, assessing the factors that prevent aid from reaching people in need.
Details the impact of the 2010 earthquake on the nation of Haiti and discusses how the country has begun to rebuild following the destruction brought by this natural disaster. Examines how earthquakes work and includes full-color photographs, a glossary, a timeline, and further reading sources.
Maps, a timeline, and photos provide an overview of the earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, exploring the devastation it caused, efforts to rebuild the country, and they ways people around the world worked together to help the victims.
In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
