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A woman is buried in an avalanche. Miners are trapped underground. A sailor’s boat capsizes in the ocean. A powerful tsunami sweeps people out to sea. Who will come to their rescue? And how will rescuers reach them? Author Sandra Markle captures the nail-biting action and shows how people use their brains, as well as their bravery, to rescue people in trouble all over the world. Rounding out the stories is the technology behind the emergencies and the rescues, including how the global positioning system works for locating victims, what the heart-lung machine does, and how robots and sensors can detect people buried in earthquakes or other disasters.
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Awards
- Book Links Lasting Connection
- SSLI Book Award Best Book
- Notable AwardNotable Award Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
Reviews
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“. . .the 11 disasters Markle describes are straight from news headlines. In this full-color photo-essay, she uses individual experiences of rescue and survival to bring drama close. . . Fiction can’t compete with these facts and photos of unimaginable disaster and unselfish courage.”
—Booklist
School Library Journal
“Each chapter begins with an excellent-quality full-page color photo followed by a mustard-colored page of text. The rest of the text is attractively arranged around numerous other photos. . . The vocabulary is right on target for the intended audience. A first choice for general readers and for those needing materials on this topic.”
— School Library Journal
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
“Eleven stories of peril and heroism, ripped from recent headlines are recounted here in brief, riveting chapters. . . Scrapbook-style shots of survivors and their rescuers-many taken on the scene-should lure the most jaded browsers.”
—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books