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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 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 historyProduct Videos
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Author Don Brown
Binding Hardcover
Language English
Book Type Graphic Novel, Nonfiction
Awards and Recognitions Orbis Pictus Award, Robert F, Sibert Informational Book Award
Grade Content 9-12
Lexile 920
Accelerated Reading Level 5.6
Subject ELA
Copyright 2015
