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Item Nr: B 114567 Title: Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917
Grade Lvl: IJ Author: Walker, Sally
Length: 145 Prod/Pub: Henry Holt
Copyright: 2011 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Provides an account of the disaster that occurred on December 6, 1917, when two ships carrying munitions and relief supplies to Europe collided, causing an explosion that leveled the towns of Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and resulted in the deaths of nearly two thousand people. A$ 7.9 RC 10.0 Lexile 1100 IL 5-8.

  Subjects:
  248 - CANADA--HISTORY
  400 - DISASTERS
  1681 - LEXILE 1100-1199
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  475 - WORLD WAR I, 1914-1918