![]() An author's note carefully separates fact from fiction, giving young readers a glimpse into one of the worst earthquakes in modern history. ![]() In Gail Langer Karwoski's stirring fictional account of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, young readers will relive the drama of the actual event and its devastating aftermath. ![]() ![]() With just his dog, he embarks on a perilous search for shelter, food and water, and missing loved ones while grappling with his Jewish traditions and fighting prejudices against a new Chinese friend. Why couldn't Papa just let him keep the stray dog-the one thing that has made him happy in months? But he forgets all his frustrations when the ground beneath his feet begins to rumble.īuildings collapse, and the street splits wide open as Jacob runs for safety from a devastating earthquake. Hail, snow, locusts, sickness, deaththe list of setbacks encountered by the Martin family as they try to earn their homestead by farming the dry ground of Colorado is a long one. Mourning the loss of his mother, thirteen-year-old Jacob Kaufman slips out of the cramped boarding house where he lives with his immigrant father and little sister Rosie. HARDSCRABBLE by Sandra Dallas RELEASE DATE: MaA close-knit family endures the rough life of farming in Colorado in the early 20th century. T's before daybreak in San Francisco on April 18, 1906. So twelve-year-old Belle Martin, along with her mother and six siblings, moves west to join her father. ![]()
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