Bibliograph

Drowned city, Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, Don Brown

Type

Label

Drowned city, Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, Don Brown

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

GN 920, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Drowned city

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

907950117

Responsibility statement

Don Brown

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 5.6, 1.0, 175216.

Sub title

Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

Summary

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 riveting 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 tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. A portion of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans

Target audience

juvenile

Classification