This nonfiction book has information about how hurricanes form and the damage they can cause on land. Conneticut and Rhode Island were the two states mentioned the most in this book. Hurricanes are considered oe of Earth's mightiest storms. This book describes that in one case, 63,000 people lost their homes and 600 peopkle died in Conneticut. This book gives several informational facts about weather instruments and how they are used. It also shows and explains what weather channels talk about when talking about natural disasters.

This is a great informative book for children. When I was young, I used to love learningabout tornadoes and hurricanes. It seems that children usually get very interested on how hurricanes form. This book gives a lot of great detail in pictures and how to interpret a map on the weather channel and what things stand for.

In the classroom, I would do a unit on natural disaster storms. I would read literature based on differnt storms and classify which ones are the worst. I would also make a pie graph with a simple distribution of storms and which children have experienced these differnt storms. ( )

Intermediate