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Author Torres, John Albert.

Title Disaster in the Indian Ocean, tsunami 2004 / by John A. Torres.

Publication Info. Hockessin, Del. : Mitchell Lane Publishers, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  J904.5 T    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J551.47 TOR    Check Shelf
Description 48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
Series Monumental milestones
Monumental milestones.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-45) and index.
Contents The ocean moved -- Aftermath -- The world responds -- Hope and miracles -- What's next?
Summary The disaster in the Indian Ocean started with a massive undersea earthquake off the coast of Indonesia. What followed was a surge of water called a tsunami that killed thousands of people in nearly a dozen countries. Water rose up miles inland and destroyed everything in its path. Children were ripped from their parents' arms, husbands and wives were lost to each other forever. This is their story. But more importantly, this is a story of hope, of how people woke up to destroyed cities and missing children and did not give up. They showed what they were made of by licking their wounds and then trying to find their lives again. This is also the story of how the world responded with the biggest humanitarian effort in history. Countries from all over the world sent money, food, water, soldiers, and doctors. Nothing like this has ever happened in our world before, and although the world responded in a big way, hopefully it will never happen again.
Subject Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 -- Juvenile literature.
Tsunamis -- Indian Ocean -- Juvenile literature.
Search and rescue operations -- Indian Ocean -- Juvenile literature.
Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004.
Tsunamis.
Rescue work.
Added Title Tsunami, 2004
ISBN 158415344X
Standard No. 9781584153443
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