Quake!
Disaster in San Francisco, 1906

Since I've been reading a lot of grown-up books on the 1906 earthquake over this past year, I decided to pick up this middle grade book on the subject so that my son could learn my about it. I read it first. Karwoski uses the backdrop of the earthquake to educate readers about the historical event a......more

A very sad book. Had trouble finishing it because it is so sad.......more

We read this as a family before bed. My kids really enjoyed it. I used to read it as a read aloud with my fourth graders. There’s so much in it about history, prejudice, kindness, family dynamic, etc.......more

I recommend this book to a person that isn't so sentimental because there is a lot of sad stuff that happened. The book quake was about a boy that got a dog from the streets without telling his dad so he got mad and made him take the dog out to the streets again in the morning but then when he went......more

The story of a boy and his dog on a quest to find his father and sister after an earthquake destroys his home. He saves a Chinese boy and finds that some people are treated like less then others because of their ethnicity and that there are people that look past that and help them on their journey.......more