Screen LibraryDrowned city : Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans /
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One tho...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Orbis Pictus award winner ; Robert F. Sibert honor book ; |
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage -- and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the trag |
| Carrier Form: | 96 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm |
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Ages 12-17. Young Adult. |
| Awards: |
Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, 2016 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book, 2016 ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2016. ALA Notable Books for Children, 2016. Notable Books of the English Language Arts, 2016. Horn Book Fanfare, 2015. Notable Books for a Global Society, 2016. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-96). |
| ISBN: |
9780544586178 9780544157774 054415777X 0544586174 9781518211362 1518211364 9781544402987 1544402988 |
| Index Number: | HV636 2005 |
| CLC: | J238.2(712) |
| Call Number: | J238.2(712)/B877-1 |