Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens
by Patricia Lauber
Nonfiction · ages 6–10 · 760L (~4th grade) · 60 pages · 1993
Why we'd hand it over
Stunning photographic documentation of a real natural disaster and its aftermath—kids grasp cause-and-effect at landscape scale, and the healing narrative is genuinely hopeful without being saccharine.