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4-6Tangled History series.
A socially and environmentally significant event is humanized, to wrenching effect, for middle-grade reading or research. The devastation of the 2010 earthquake and aftershocks in Haiti is related, day by day, from the perspective of several survivors; full-color photographs accompany the chronological narrative. An epilogue summarizes the earthquake's toll and updates readers on the survivors' lives. Reading list, timeline. Bib., glos., ind.