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