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Author
Series
Golden Gate secrets volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After getting left at the altar in 1906, Kenzie Gifford flees to San Francisco, determined never to love again. When an earthquake strikes, Kenzie finds herself facing a hidden danger--and two men set on winning her heart. With her life--and heart--on the line, who can she trust?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new family who will care for her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the eve of the San Fransisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong--daughter of Chinese immigrants--is struggling to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to survive"--
Author
Series
Randall Blackburn thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
258, [1] p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
87 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Earning money to help his family in 1906, ten-year-old newsboy Leo explores the hilly city's bustling business world and modern innovations before a massive earthquake and decimating fire change everything he has ever known.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning to her former home of San Francisco in 1924, Mary Russell and her husband, eminent detective Sherlock Holmes, are confronted by dark secrets of the past that continue to haunt Mary's dreams.
Author
Series
I survived volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
87 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"A Leo le gusta ser rejpartidor de periódicos en San Francisco. Necesita el dinero y el trabajo le proporciona, además, la libertad de explorar la maravillosa ciudad que crece junto al nuevo siglo. Coches tirados por caballos comparten las calles con elegantes automóviles; familias y comercios, provenientes de todas partes, se instalan a diario en sus vecindarios. Es un lugar en el que todo parece posible. Sin embargo, una mañana de primavera,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
218 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The date is April 18, 1906. The city of San Francisco has just been rocked and shaken by a huge earthquake. Even worse, the quake causes huge fires to break out across the city. Can you escape your damaged home before it collapses? Will you join the firefighters as they try to save the city from the devastating fires? Will you be accused of looting after helping a boy escape from some rubble? With dozens of possible choices, it's up to YOU to survive...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
200 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Days after arriving in San Francisco from Texas, eleven-year-old orphan Nicholas Dray tries to help his new neighbors survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent fires.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Matthew J. Davenport's The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shock waves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to...
15) Vera: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meet Vera Johnson, the uncommonly resourceful fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco's most legendary bordello and ally to the city's corrupt politicians. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds-the madam's alluring sphere, replete with tickets to the opera, surly henchmen, and scant morality, and the violent, debt ridden domestic life of the family paid to raise her. On the morning of the great quake,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake. One early April morning in 1906, the people of San Francisco were jolted awake by a mammoth earthquake--one that registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale. Not only was there major damage from the quake itself but broken gas lines sparked a fire that ravaged the city for days. More than...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 24
Publisher
Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
La casa del árbol lleva a Annie y Jack a California, en 1806, en el momento justo del famoso terremoto de San Francisco. ¿Podrán Annie y Jack encontrar el último escrito para que Morgana salve al reino de Camelot? ¿Lo lograrán antes de que San Francisco quede en ruinas?
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
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