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Author | : Lauren Tarshis |
Publisher | : Scholastic Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781338317411 |
Download I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 (I Survived #19) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One hundred years ago, a killer wave of molasses struck a crowded Boston neighborhood. Discover the story of this strange disaster in the next book in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series. There were warning signs that the molasses tank would break. The steel sides moaned and groaned. Molasses oozed from its seams. But the people of Boston's North End -- mostly poor immigrants -- were powerless to complain to the big molasses company. On a bright January day in 1919, the tank finally broke and almost three million gallons of molasses rushed the neighborhood. At 15 feet tall, 160 feet wide, and traveling at 35 miles per hour, the gooey wave was more destructive than any flood of water would have been. Lauren Tarshis tells the riveting story of one child who was swept up in the sticky storm and lived to tell the tale.
Author | : Stephen Puleo |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807078018 |
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A new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history—and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it. Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston’s North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window—“Oh my God!” he shouted to the other men, “Run!” A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn’t known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster.
Author | : Deborah Kops |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2015-02-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781484444696 |
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Chronicles the events surrounding the Great Molasses Flood, during which a large storage tank burst in a Boston neighborhood in 1919 and caused a deadly wave of molasses to flood the streets.
Author | : Beth Wagner Brust |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780816745234 |
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Maggie tries to liven up things by telling tall tales, then one day a huge molasses tank bursts but no one will believe her.
Author | : Kirsten Anderson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2024-04-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0593520793 |
Download What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Learn about Boston's molasses disaster of 1919, when a storage tank burst and flooded the streets, in this latest addition to the New York Times Bestselling What Was? series. An unusually warm winter day resulted in 2.3 million gallons of molasses flooding the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The disaster killed twenty-one people and injured 150 others. Rescue missions were launched to save people from the sticky and deadly mess, led by the Red Cross, the Army, the Navy, and the Massachusetts Nautical School. With the help of hundreds of volunteers over the course of several weeks, the streets were cleaned up. But the smell of molasses and the horror of the preventable tragedy lingered for decades to come.
Author | : Deborah Kops |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-01-06 |
Genre | : Alcohol industry |
ISBN | : 9780606366502 |
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For use in schools and libraries only. An account of the January 1919 molasses tank explosion in Boston, Massachusetts, seeks to uncover why the tank blew up and who was to blame through primary sources and archival photographs that show the extent of the damage.
Author | : Lauren Tarshis |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0545789745 |
Download Five Epic Disasters (I Survived True Stories #1) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The New York Times-bestselling I Survived series expands to include this thrilling nonfiction exploration of five true stories, from the Titanic to the Henryville Tornadoes. REAL KIDS. REAL DISASTERS.From the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series come five harrowing true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters.From a group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these unforgettable kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction -- and, against all odds, survival.Read their incredible stories:The Children’s Blizzard, 1888The Titanic Disaster, 1912The Great Boston Molasses Flood, 1919The Japanese Tsunami, 2011The Henryville Tornado, 2012
Author | : Martin W. Sandler |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1547605766 |
Download 1919 The Year That Changed America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 1919 was a world-shaking year. America was recovering from World War I and black soldiers returned to racism so violent that that summer would become known as the Red Summer. The suffrage movement had a long-fought win when women gained the right to vote. Laborers took to the streets to protest working conditions; nationalistic fervor led to a communism scare; and temperance gained such traction that prohibition went into effect. Each of these movements reached a tipping point that year. Now, one hundred years later, these same social issues are more relevant than ever. Sandler traces the momentum and setbacks of these movements through this last century, showing that progress isn't always a straight line and offering a unique lens through which we can understand history and the change many still seek.
Author | : Joan Hiatt Harlow |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2013-07-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442487178 |
Download Joshua's Song Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Boston, 1919. It’s been a terrible year for thirteen-year-old Joshua Harper. The influenza pandemic that’s sweeping the world has claimed his father’s life; his voice has changed, so he can’t sing in the Boston Boys’ Choir anymore; and now money is tight, so he must quit school to get a job. It’s not fair! Joshua begins working as a newspaper boy, hawking papers on the street, but he soon finds himself competing with Charlestown Charlie, a tough, streetwise boy who does not make things easier for Joshua. It seems that fitting in is not as easy as it once was. Then disaster strikes the city of Boston. Joshua must do what he can to help, and in doing so he finds the place—and the voice—that he thought he’d lost. This remarkable novel is fast-paced, suspenseful, and based on true incidents in Boston history.
Author | : Stephen Puleo |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2011-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080700149X |
Download A City So Grand Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A lively history of Boston’s emergence as a world-class city—home to the likes of Frederick Douglass and Alexander Graham Bell—by a beloved Bostonian historian “It’s been quite a while since I’ve read anything—fiction or nonfiction—so enthralling.”—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island Once upon a time, “Boston Town” was an insulated New England township. But the community was destined for greatness. Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis to emerge as one of the world’s great metropolises—one that achieved national and international prominence in politics, medicine, education, science, social activism, literature, commerce, and transportation. Long before the frustrations of our modern era, in which the notion of accomplishing great things often appears overwhelming or even impossible, Boston distinguished itself in the last half of the nineteenth century by proving it could tackle and overcome the most arduous of challenges and obstacles with repeated—and often resounding—success, becoming a city of vision and daring. In A City So Grand, Stephen Puleo chronicles this remarkable period in Boston’s history, in his trademark page-turning style. Our journey begins with the ferocity of the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and ends with the glorious opening of America’s first subway station, in 1897. In between we witness the thirty-five-year engineering and city-planning feat of the Back Bay project, Boston’s explosion in size through immigration and annexation, the devastating Great Fire of 1872 and subsequent rebuilding of downtown, and Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone utterance in 1876 from his lab at Exeter Place. These lively stories and many more paint an extraordinary portrait of a half century of progress, leadership, and influence that turned a New England town into a world-class city, giving us the Boston we know today.