Tarshis, Lauren

The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs - and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war - brutal, bloody war. And America was being crushed by the mighty British army.

Real kids. Real disasters. The Trii-State Tornado of 1925 was the deadliest tornado strike in American history, tearing through three states and killing 700 peol=ple. Almost a century later, the Joplin Tornado was a milewide monster that nearly destroyed the heart of a vibrant city. Here are the vivid and true stories of two young people who survived these terrifyying twisters, along with fascinating facts about tornadoes.

Five Epic Disasters: Tsunami, Blizzard, Tornado, Flood, Titanic.

No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, hilgh above the city wakes up angry sometimes-and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall from the sky like rain, will they have time to excape-and survive the epic destruction of Pompeii?.