Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?Condition: NewISBN-10: 0593520785EAN: 9780593520789ISBN: 9780593520789Publisher: Penguin WorkshopFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/09/2024Description: Learn about Boston's molasses disaster of 1919, when a storage tank burst and flooded the streets, in this latest addition to the New York Times Bestselling What Was? series.An unusually warm winter day resulted in 2.3 million gallons of molasses flooding the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The disaster killed twenty-one people and injured 150 others. Rescue missions were launched to save people from the sticky and deadly mess, led by the Red Cross, the Army, the Navy, and the Massachusetts Nautical School. With the help of hundreds of volunteers over the course of several weeks, the streets were cleaned up. But the smell of molasses and the horror of the preventable tragedy lingered for decades to come.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 202mmItem Length: 146mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 232gAuthor: Kirsten AndersonIllustrator: Dede PutraContributor: Dede Putra (Illustrated by)Genre: Children's ReferenceBook Series: What Was?Release Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
Title: What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
ISBN-10: 0593520785
EAN: 9780593520789
ISBN: 9780593520789
Release Date: 04/09/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Dede Putra (Illustrated by)
Series: What Was?
Book Title: What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
Number of Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Topic: Science & Nature / Disasters, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History / Symbols, Monuments, National Parks, Etc., History / United States / 20th Century
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.5 in
Illustrator: Yes, Putra, Dede
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction, History
Item Weight: 8.2 Oz
Author: Kirsten Anderson, Who HQ
Item Length: 7.9 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Book Series: What Was? Ser.
Format: Library Binding
