Booklist: Eruptions!

Prepping for a field trip with a homeschool group to Ape Cave and Mt. St. Helens this weekend.  Like most of my field trips (with groups, or just the family) the point of it is really just to be out and about and see what's out in the world, but I usually like to wrap in some kind of earth science theme around the thing, too.   This time, it's just natural to make that be the different kinds of volcano eruptions. 

Mt. St. Helens steaming away in the background during our last trip to the volcano, October 2010.

I will make sure not to lose it if I share with you the list of recommended books I'll be handing out to the group, if they want to do additional reading.

For the youngers:

Pompeii..Buried Alive!  (Step Into Reading, Step 4) by Edith Kunhardt

Volcanoes (Smithsonian) by Seymour Simon

Volcanoes! (National Geographic Readers) by Anne Schreiber

For the olders:

The Secrets of Vesuvius by Sara Bisel

Will it Blow?  Become a Volcano Detective at Mount St. Helens by Elizabeth Rusch

Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mt. St. Helens by Patricia Lauber

For high school/adults:

Return to Spirit Lake: Journey Through a Lost Landscape by Christine Colasurdo

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester

No Apparent Danger: The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras by Victoria Bruce

Melting the Earth: The History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions by Haraldur Sigurdsson

All ages:

Mt. St. Helens: The Eruption and Recovery of a Volcano by Rob Carson

The Explosive World of Volcanoes with Max Axiom (Graphic Library) by Christopher L. Harbo

Eyewitness Books Volcano & Earthquake by Susanna Van Rose

See?  Steaming!  Crossing my fingers for weather this nice this weekend.