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Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. He's award winning science

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writer Seymour Simon who writes his books
for young people, but all of us

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can enjoy them. And tis the
season for thunderstorms. So how about a

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book by Seymour called Lightning. Your
kids will certainly enjoy this one, as

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we find out that lightning is constant
striking our planet more than one hundred times

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a second, so powerful and so
fast that we rarely get a chance to

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see it up close. But the
author, Seymour Simon, gives the kids

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an opportunity to get closer to lightning
the safe way, explaining what exactly causes

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those huge, bright flashes. Stunning
full color photographs help and readers will learn

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about the formation of lightning, why
and how lightning occurs, and how to

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protect yourself when caught in the midst
of a lightning storm. The author's also

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written books about earthquakes and tornadoes and
wildfires and other storms, science and nature

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for the young reader. A book
called Lightning by Seymour Simon, and that's

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the book Club. WBZ Boston's newsread