Tornado Hits!: A Branches Book (Hilde Cracks the Case #5): Volume 5

Breaking news A tornado has hit Selinsgrove

Pick a book. Grow a Reader This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow Real-life crime reporter Hilde Lysiak is starring in her very own early chapter book series -- inspired by real news stories she has written In this fifth book, a tornado hits Selinsgrove Hilde and her sister/photographer Izzy set out to uncover its path and report on the damage. No one is hurt, but the sisters find a strange clue: There are fish flopping all over Orange Street Where did the fish come from? Hilde is about to discover something WILD Joanne Lew-Vriethoff's personality-filled illustrations appear on every page, bringing Hilde's adventures to life for young readers

Author: Hilde Lysiak, Matthew Lysiak
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 09/25/2018
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781338266771
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.6
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 197672 / Tornado Hits!


Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Joanne Lew-Vriethoff is the acclaimed illustrator of many picture books, including Beautiful by Stacy McAnulty, named among School Library Journal's 2016 Books with a Message. She is a Mom's Choice Gold Award medal winner whose illustrations can be found in The Dancing Pancake by Eileen Spinelli and Peace, Baby! by Linda Ashman. Joanne also is the illustrator of the Hilde Cracks the Case series by Hilde Lysiak. She lives in Amsterdam with her husband and two children.
Matthew Lysiak is a nationally recognized journalist and author. He has reported for the New York Daily News, Newsweek, the New York Sun, AM New York, and the Guardian. He has also appeared as a contributor on The Today Show, MSNBC, and countless other media outlets to discuss his work. He coauthored the young adult memoir of teen scientist Jack Andraka, Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World, and was the author of Newtown: An American Tragedy. Matthew is cowriting the Branches early chapter book series Hilde Cracks the Case with his daughter, Hilde Kate Lysiak.
Hilde Lysiak is the 11-year-old publisher of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania's newspaper, the Orange Street News. The paper has 700+ paid subscribers and is read by thousands more online. Hilde's journalism efforts have been profiled by the New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, NBC Today, and hundreds of other newspapers and television stations around the world. Hilde is cowriting the Scholastic Branches series Hilde Cracks the Case with her dad, Matthew Lysiak.