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On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered--all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them.

After a local mountain becomes a deadly and imminent threat, three strikingly different women become linked in a desperate mission. Children's author Katheryn Sommers is searching for her depressed husband, David, and their son Brian, camping together on Mount St. Helen's tumultuous north slope. Mellie Sedor seeks her husband, Daniel, who has taken a logging job to pay for their daughter's chemotherapy. Fashion photographer Jenn Stockton comes to...

For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the longquiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared. Fifty-seven people died, including newlywed logger John Killian (for years afterward, his father searched for him in the ash), scientist Dave Johnston, and celebrated local curmudgeon Harry Truman. The lives of many others...

On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered, all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them.

When a volcano erupts, Gopher is among the few animals to survive but the tunnels that he digs once the earth stops shaking help the mountain recover by providing shade and soft soil for animals and plants to make a fresh start. Includes facts and activities.

"Mountain of Fire is the narrative nonfiction story of the violent volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, the story of the people who died, those who survived, and the heroes who fought to raise an alarm. For weeks, the ground around Mount St. Helens shuddered like a dynamite keg ready to explode. There were legends of previou eruptions: violent fire, treacherous floods, and heat that had scoured the area. But the shaking and swelling...

An account of how and why Mount St. Helens erupted in May 1980 and the destruction it caused, and a discussion of the return of life to that area.

The atmospheric and potential climatic aspects of a volcanic eruption were discussed. Measurements and techniques used in collecting the data are summarized.