Disaster in the Indian Ocean, tsunami 2004

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Label

Disaster in the Indian Ocean, tsunami 2004

Statement of responsibility

John A. Torres

Creator

• Torres, John Albert

Subject

• Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
• Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 -- Juvenile literature
• Rescue work
• Tsunamis -- Indian Ocean -- Juvenile literature
• Search and rescue operations -- Indian Ocean -- Juvenile literature
• Tsunamis

Genre

• Juvenile literature

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Monumental milestones

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

909/.09824083

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

GC221.5

LC item number

.T665 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Monumental milestones

Target audience

juvenile