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The next book in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series will place readers right in the middle of the deadly Joplin Tornado of 2011. The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri in 2011. It was part of a larger tornado outbreak in the spring of that year and reached a maximum width of nearly 1 mile during its path through the southern part of the city, killing 158 people, injuring over 1,000 and caused damages amounting to a total of $2.8 billion, making it the costliest single tornado in U.S. history. Lauren will bring her signature intensity to this distinctly American natural disaster, placing a young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947.
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I Survived the Joplin Tornado, Lauren Tarshis
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- Released
- 2011
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- (Paperback)
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- Title
- I Survived the Joplin Tornado
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lauren Tarshis
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 112
- ISBN10
- 0545658489
- ISBN13
- 9780545658485
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Children's Books, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, American Literature, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Children's adventures, For Boys, Natural Disasters, Hurricanes and Tornadoes
- First published
- 2015
- Original title
- I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011
- Rating
- 4.2 out of 5
- Description
- The next book in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series will place readers right in the middle of the deadly Joplin Tornado of 2011. The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri in 2011. It was part of a larger tornado outbreak in the spring of that year and reached a maximum width of nearly 1 mile during its path through the southern part of the city, killing 158 people, injuring over 1,000 and caused damages amounting to a total of $2.8 billion, making it the costliest single tornado in U.S. history. Lauren will bring her signature intensity to this distinctly American natural disaster, placing a young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947.