Rebecca Behrens Disaster Days

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Hatchet meets The Babysitters Club in this middle grade chapter book, that tells the epic and thrilling survival story about pushing oneself to the limit in the face of a crisis.Hannah Steele loves living on Pelling, a tiny island near Seattle. It's a little disconnected from the outside world, but she's always felt completely safe there.Which is why when she's asked one day to babysit after school, she thinks it's no big deal. Zoe and Oscar are her next-door neighbors, and Hannah just took a babysitting class that she's pretty sure makes her an expert. She isn't even worried that she left her inhaler at home.Then the shaking begins.The terrifying earthquake only lasts four minutes but it changes everything, damaging the house, knocking out the power, and making cell service nonexistent. Even worse, the ferry and the bridge connecting the kids to help-and their parents-are both blocked. Which means they're stranded and alone... With Hannah in charge, as things go from bad to dangerous.The Disaster Days is a perfect...gift for preteen survival story fansearthquake fiction chapter book for tween girls ages 11-14survivalist fiction book for middle grade girlssummer reading book for preteenspreteen gift for girls