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    PAIRED TEXTS

    A Wildfire Changed My Life

    How the 2023 Maui wildfires touched one girl’s life and united a community
  • Text, "The Fascinating History of Fire" against a fiery backdrop

    PAIRED TEXTS

    The Fascinating History of Fire/The Fire God

    An article about the incredible power of fire is paired with a Greek myth
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    NONFICTION

    The Shattered Land

    The true story of the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964
  • Image of a giant hole in a city

    MINI READ

    Swallowed Up!

    Sinkholes can cause the ground to open up without warning. How do they form?
  • A house on fire

    NONFICTION

    Our Beautiful Town Is Gone

    The story of Paradise, California, and the deadliest wildfire in California history
  • Trees on fire as lava moved through the area and smoke rises into the air

    NONFICTION

    Beauty and Disaster

    When a volcano erupted last May, the people of Hawaii's Big Island faced violent explosions, rivers of lava, and the fear that their beautiful island could be destroyed.
  • Article

    NONFICTION

    Swarms of Terror

    Throughout the late 1800s, grasshoppers brought destruction and ruin to pioneers across America’s West.
  • A city almost completely underwater

    NONFICTION

    Our World Turned To Water

    Surviving the Louisiana Flood of 2016
  • Article

    NONFICTION

    Black Sunday

    The shocking story of the biggest dust storm in American history