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

Hilde Lysiak is the ten-year-old publisher of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania’s monthly newspaper, Orange Street News. The paper has 700+ paid subscribers and is read by hundreds of thousands more on her website. Hilde's journalism efforts have been profiled in the New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, the New York Daily News, NBC TODAY, and hundreds of other newspaper and television stations around the world. Hilde is co-writing the Scholastic Branches series Hilde Cracks the Case with her dad, Matthew Lysiak.

1. Fishy Clue2. A Flipping, Flopping, Frenzy!3. Walking Fish?4. Hilde Versus Tree5. Crash Landing6. Market Street Sirens7. T-Rex on the Loose?8. Ripped up by the Root9. Beep! Beep!10. Shattered Window11. Biting into the Story!12. Surprise Landing13. Path of Damage14. Flying Reporters15. A Special Report