How do hurricanes begin, and what happens when they strike land? Moving from the general to the specific, Kingfisher Readers L5: Hurricanes by Chris Oxlade explains the life cycle of a hurricane, and then relates what happened when famous hurricanes hit the United States and other countries around the world. All Level 5 readers are for students fast developing in confidence and ability. There is more difficult vocabulary, more text, more sophisticated information, and a range of tenses and sentence types