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I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910


Series
I Survived

by
Lauren Tarshis

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Scholastic
Imprint
Scholastic Inc.
ISBN
9781338752571
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Crime: General , Violence: Death
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The Wellington snow slide of 1910 was—and still is—the deadliest avalanche in America’s history. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving the frozen nightmare pounds with page-turning action and heartwarming hope.

The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm.

But the storm didn’t stop. One day passed, then two, three . . . six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after midnight on March 1, a lightning storm struck the mountain, sending a ten-foot-high wave of snow barreling down the mountain. The trains tumbled 150 feet. 96 people were dead.

The Wellington avalanche forever changed railroad engineering. New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tells the tale of one girl who survived, emerging from the snow forever changed herself.

“Real-Life Wellington.”  “Finding Janie’s Story.” More facts about the Wellington disaster and its aftermath. Selected bibliography. Black-and-white illustrations, photographs, and reproductions. 

POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Crime: General , Violence: Death

Details

Format

Print

Page Count

144

Trim Size

8 1/2" x 5 1/2"

Dewey

F

AR

4.3: points 2

Genre

Fic

Scholastic Reading Counts

0

JLG Release

Jan 2023

Book Genres

Adventure, Historical Fiction

Topics

Avalanches. Blizzards. Survival stories. Natural disasters. Railroads and trains. Twentieth-century US history. Wellington, Washington. 

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