Calling all investigators!

It’s time to put on your detective hat and accept the mission: from Titanic to the Chicago Fire to the Boston molasses flood, readers get to investigate five famous historical disasters. Readers will sift through and analyze important clues and facts files, conduct at-home science experiments, while reading riveting eyewitness accounts… all to figure out what is happening, why, if it’s survivable, and thinking about what they would do in the same situation! Join Emmy Award-winning journalist Anna Crowley Redding, as she shows readers tricks of the trade of real reporters and investigators!

Dig into the details of the sinking of the Titanic,  the explosion of the Hindenburg, the Great Influenza of 1918, the deadly Boston molasses flood, and the fire that decimated Chicago. From illustrated paper clipped pages to note cards, file folders, and fantastic illustrations from the talented Robbie Cathro, The Danger Files delivers a rip-roaring read that brings these engrossing stories to life, and invokes the feeling of working a real case file. Readers will be eager for the next clue and next chapter. And luckily, this edition is the first of a series!

Back matter includes extensive source notes and a bibliography for young journalists who want to get an even bigger scoop.

Early Praise for The Danger Files!

Fact-file inserts and eyewitness accounts help readers understand the causes, courses, and aftermaths of five historical calamities. . . the blow-by-blow narratives make for absorbing reading, and the substantial bibliography at the end should please even the most demanding young documentarians. . . . Catastrophically engrossing.
—Kirkus Reviews

Disasters are a perpetual source of curiosity for kids, and this book from the Danger Files series offers fresh ways of learning the facts, identifying the causes, and realizing the impacts of five historic catastrophes. . . . This is sure to be popular with researchers, browsers, and catastrophe-minded leisure readers.
—Booklist

This hits all the right notes of an informative middle grade read with an engrossing subject, intelligently designed organization, and a welcoming tone, making it an easy sell to readers who still can’t get enough of the I Survived books.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books