| Title Statement |
Mountain of fire: the eruption and survivors of Mount St. Helens / Rebecca E. F. Barone. |
| Author |
Barone, Rebecca E. F |
| Publication |
New York: Henry Holt and Company,2024. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Extent of Item |
xvii, 173 pages |
| ISBN |
9781250881656 (hardcover) |
| Other Number |
pr07327109 |
| Contents |
March 20-27, 1980 --Late March-May 16, 1980 --Saturday, May 17, 1980 --May 18, 1980, 8:32 A.M. --May 18-19, 1980 : late morning to the next day --May 1980-August 1982 --Today. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173). |
| Summary |
"For weeks, the ground around Mount St. Helens shuddered like a dynamite keg ready to explode. There were legends of previous eruptions: violent fire, treacherous floods, and heat that had scoured the area. But the shaking and swelling was unlike any volcanic activity ever seen before. Day and night, scientists tried to piece together the mountain's clues--yet nothing could prepare them for the destruction to come. The long-dormant volcano seethed away, boiling rock far below the surface. Washington's governor, Dixie Lee Ray, understood the despair that would follow from people being forced from their homes. How and when should she give orders to evacuate the area? And would that be enough to save the people from the eruption of Mount St. Helens?"-- |
| Subjects & Genres |
| By Topic |
Natural disasters--Juvenile literature--Washington (State)--Saint Helens, Mount |
| Volcanoes--Juvenile literature--Washington (State)--Saint Helens, Mount |
| By Location |
Saint Helens, Mount (Wash.)--Juvenile literature--Eruption, 1980 |
