Ecological Disasters

by Ann Weil

This series of nonfiction readers will grab a student's interest from the very first page! Designed with struggling readers in mind, these riveting 64-page softcover books offer short chapters on significant disasters. Each chapter is its own mini-book, which includes a timeline, key terms, and interesting facts. Fascinating black and white photographs keep the pages turning. A bibliography encourages further topical reading. Disasters are inherently frightening, riveting, and involving. Grabbed straight from the headlines, these disasters leave tragedy, destruction, and years of anguish: London Fog, The Love Canal, The Hanford Nuclear Power Plant, The Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl, Bhopal, Fukishima Daiichi and more.

92 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2012

About the author

Ann Weil (1908-1969) was a children's author whose children's historical novel, Red Sails to Capri was a 1953 Newbery Honor Book. Some of her other books include Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag, Betsy Ross: Girl of Old Philadelphia, and Eleanor Roosevelt: Courageous Girl. Ann was born in Harrisburg, Illinois.

Reviews

[Deandre White · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read "Ecological Disasters":by Ann Weil. This book is about how people make mistakes that are damaging the Earth and others lives. Those big mistakes have to do with pollution,which wrecks natural environments such as trees,humans,and all living things. There are many contaminated area because of toxic wastes and oil spills. Oil and gases people uses for their cars go out into the air and is bad for people to breathe in,these things can cause cancer and is causing many lives. So are the chemicals that people are dumping into our oceans. I'm glad that I read this book and would recommend this book to anyone who is effecting life without knowing and to people that are recklessly polluting. If people don't stop polluting the world is going to be an disaster in the future.

[Terri Chancellor · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Ecological Disasters" is a great non-fiction read for struggling readers. Each chapter begins with a data page that includes a timeline, a map, fun facts, and key terms. Chapters include the story behind disasters such as The Exon Valdez, Chernobyl, Love Canal, etc.