TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owings,Lisa
TI  - Craco: the medieval ghost town 
T2  - Torque: Abandoned places
SN  - 9781626176959
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - Bellwether Media, Inc.
KW  - Cities and towns, Medieval
KW  - Italy
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Ghost towns
KW  - Natural disasters
KW  - Craco
KW  - History
KW  - Craco (Italy)
KW  - Illustrated works
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 23) and index; The climb to Craco -- An Italian hill town -- Surviving the centuries -- Collapse -- Glossary; Grades 3-7; Ages 7-12; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 3.7; 0.5; 191971
N2  - Cracos historical happenings hint at a curse. The town faced a plague, then war, then earthquakes and landslides. In the end, the natural disasters dealt the final blow, causing Craco to physically collapse. In this book, young readers will discover a medieval town that eventually lost its uphill battle for survival
ER  -