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Books about Mount St. Helens
Children's Books

The Living Mountain
Rob Carson, Storytellers Ink, 1992

Mt. St. Helens and the Secret of the Bar-Roo Forest

Gopher to the Rescue! A Volcano Recovery Story
Terry Catasus Jennings, 2012

Volcano, The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens
Patricia Lauber, 1993

Will it Blow? Become a Volcano Detective at Mount St. Helens
Elizabeth Rusch, 2017

I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens
Lauren Tarshis, 1980

Mountain of Fire: The Daring Rescue from Mount St. Helens
Paul Thomsen, 1990
Research and Science Writing

Mount St. Helens: The Eruption and Recovery of a Volcano
Rob Carson, 2000

Potential Hazards from Future Eruptions of Mount St. Helens Volcano, Washington
Dwight Raymond Crandell and Donal Ray Mullineaux, 1978

Ecological Responses to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens
Dale, Virginia H., Swanson, Frederick J., Crisafulli, Charles M. (Eds.), 2005

Ecological Responses at Mount St. Helens: Revisited 35 Years After the 1980 Eruption
Charles M. Crisafulli, Virginia H. Dale (Eds.), 2018

Volcanic Eruptions of 1980 at Mount St. Helens: the first 100 days
Bruce L. Foxworthy and Mary Hill, 1982

Biological Research Following the 1980 Eruptions: an indexed bibliography and research abstracts (1980-1993)
Peter Frenzen, 1994

First Seventy Days: Mount St. Helens, 1980
Linda Kelso, 1980

Mount St. Helens Holocaust: A Diary for Destruction
Tom Koenninger, 1980

The 1980 Eruptions of Mount St. Helens, Washington
Peter W. Lipman and Donal Ray Mullineaux, 1981

Mount St. Helens, The Volcano Explodes!
Palmer, Leonard and KOIN TV Newsroom 6., 1980

Living with Mount St. Helens
Ronald W. Perry, and Michael K. Lindell, 1990

Earthfire: The Eruption of Mount St. Helens
Charles Rosenfeld and Robert Cooke, 1982

A Volcano Rekindled: The Renewed Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 2005-2006
David R. Sherrod, William E. Scott, and Peter H. Stauffer (eds.), 2008

Eruptions of Mount St. Helens: Past, Present, and Future
Robert Tilling, et al. 1990

After the Blast
Eric Wagner, 2020

Mount St. Helens: A Changing Landscape
Chuck Williams, 1980

Volcano Cowboys
Dick Tompson, 2002
Field Guides

Day Hiking Mount St. Helens
Craig Romano, Aaron Theisen, 2015

Roadside Geology of Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and Vicinity
Patrick Pringle, 2002

Hiking Mount St. Helens - Falcon Guides
Frank Barstad, 2004

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Discover Your Northwest Trail Guides, 2008

A Complete Guide to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
Klindt Vielbig, 1987
Memoirs

Return to Spirit Lake
Christine Colasurdo, 2010

A Hero on Mount St. Helens
Melanie Holmes, 2019

In the Path of Destruction: Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens
Richard Waitt, 2015

Eruption
Steve Olson, 2015

Echoes of Fury: The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens and the Lives it Changed
Frank Parchman, 2005

Truman of St. Helens, The Man and His Mountain
Shirley Rosen, 1981
Art and Poetry

Danger on Peaks, Poems
Gary Snyder, 2004

In the Red Zome
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983

Mount st. Helens: Photography by Frank Gohlke
Peter Galassi, Frank Gohlke, Simon LeVay, and Kerry Sieh, 2005

Images of America: Mount St. Helens
David A. Anderson, 2013

In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens
Charles Goodrich, Kathleen Moore, and Frederick Swanson (eds.), 2008
This list of books was selected and provided by Christine Colasurdo and Abi Groskopf. Please contact us with any omissions.