Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

by Don Brown

Book Overview

Sibert Honor Medalist - Kirkus' Best of 2015 list - School Library Journal Best of 2015 - Publishers Weekly's Best of 2015 list - Horn Book Fanfare Book - Booklist Editor's Choice

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 054415777X
• ISBN13: 9780544157774
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher