Calamities
Subtitle: 21 stories of disasters that touched the world--with exercises for developing reading comprehension and critical thinking skills
By: Henry Billings, Melissa Billings.
Contributors: Billings, Melissa Stone.
Series: Critical reading series
Publisher: Jamestown Publishers; Contemporary Books; McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lincolnwood, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Readers (Middle school); Readers (Elementary); Reading comprehension -- Problems, exercises, etc; Natural disasters -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Problems, exercises, etc.; Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Calamities :
Description: Nonfiction articles examining natural disasters and other catastrophic incidents (such as the Love Canal chemical dumping and the TWA Flight 800 crash). Each is followed by reading comprehension and critical thinking exercises.
Notes: "Levels F-H."