Dean Koontz would be proud of this author as she seems to put dogs in all of her books as well. This one is a golden retriever named Moose. He and his little humans, Abby and Jonathan, have to survive an Earthquake with trees falling all around and a nice little flood soon after. Complicating matters is Abby's partial paralysis, which means she can't swim or move anywhere very fast. I like that Jonathan isn't some super-child who has been training in Krav Maga and learning survival tips from Bear Grylls his whole life and MacGyvers his way out of the situation. He gets by on his pre-teen skills and manages to be a real big brother during the whole thing. He learns some lessons-like how terrible it must be to depend on a walker to take a few measly steps and how he should have done the extra credit report on earthquakes instead of watching baseball.