A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out
Author: Nicholas Day
Illustrator: Yas Imamura
The cataclysmic 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora triggered worldwide climate change and a chain of historical events including Mary Shelley’s creation of Frankenstein. Black-and-white multimedia illustrations. Extensive back matter.
Our Young Reviewer Says:
I loved this book very much because it taught me a lot about how history is connected. It taught me things that I have never known before. I would have never thought that a volcano eruption would eventually lead to a woman writing a novel called Frankenstein.
Most of the time, I don’t really love very informative nonfiction books because after a while of reading, I get a bit bored. I found this book extremely special because every single page in it provided so much information, and yet I never could put the book down. I truly think that I’ve never spent so much time reading a non-fiction chapter book with eagerness.
–Aika, age 13, New York, NY
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