# Volcanoes

**Author:** Nell Cross Beckerman
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–12
**First published:** 2024
**Genre:** Nonfiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781338874679`
**ISBN-10:** `1338874675`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/volcanoes
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A lyrical nonfiction picture book that takes readers inside Earth's most powerful eruptions — how volcanoes form, why they blow, and the life that returns after. Nell Cross Beckerman's grades 3-6 informational title (illustrated by Kalen Chock) is a 2025-2026 Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee.

## Themes

- nature
- history
- intelligence

## Where this book is assigned

### Texas Bluebonnet Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Texas — [source: Texas Bluebonnet Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/current-list/)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Texas — [source: Texas Bluebonnet Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/current-list/)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Texas — [source: Texas Bluebonnet Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/current-list/)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Texas — [source: Texas Bluebonnet Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/current-list/)

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