Drowned city : Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans / written and illustrated by Don Brown.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: 1550232 | Houghton Mifflin HarcourtSeries: Orbis Pictus award winner ; 2016. | Robert F. Sibert honor book ; 2016.Publisher: New York, NY : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]Copyright date: Description: 96 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Teenagers
ISBN:
  • 9780544157774
  • 054415777X
  • 9780544586178
  • 0544586174
  • 9781518211362
  • 1518211364
  • 9781544402987
  • 1544402988
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.34/92209763 23
LOC classification:
  • HV636 2005.N4 B75 2015
Online resources: 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.
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 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.
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Books Books Odessa College Young Adult YA GN 363.34 DROWN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 51994001716416

Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-96).

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 tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history.

Ages 12-17.

Young Adult.

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.

Text in English.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.6 1 175216.

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