They Survived Mt. St. Helens

by Megan Stine

Survivors of the devastating 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens share eyewitness accounts of the disaster and describe their dramatic escape from the volcano. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679843620
• ISBN13: 9780679843627
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Reads like fast-paced fiction, but it's all true!

This excellent title, from the "Read it to believe it!" series, reads like gripping, fast-paced fiction, but it's all based on the incredible eyewitness accounts of those who were on or near Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980.Written at about a 4th grade level, this one gets checked-out a lot every May in our Washington State elementary school library. I often make an annual tradition of reading the first couple of chapters to middle grade students, and they sit there spellbound. Of course, around here, most of the students' parents--and teachers--have first-hand stories to tell about what they were doing on that fateful day.At the time of this review, "They Survived Mount St. Helens" is out-of-print. This title certainly deserves to be brought back. In my opinion, it should be on every elementary school library shelf in Washington and Oregon.