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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

Don Brown

Start date: November 29, 2015

Finish date: November 29, 2015

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Nov 29, 2015 Dolly rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015, middle-grade, pets, other-usa, nonfiction, military, young-adult, graphic-novels-comics, ocean-seashore

This book offers a stark look at the events leading up to, during, and following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. The narrative is appropriate for middle graders and helps to explain the tragic disaster that occurred before most children that age were old enough to understand what was happening.

The narrative provides a day by day sequence of events, with commentary that is highly critical of the federal, state and local attempts to provide official assistance. At the same time, he praises the ...more

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Sep 09, 2015 Dutchbaby rated it liked it

Shelves: read-in-2015

impressive research; the bleakness & desperation come through in the illustrations

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Sep 10, 2015 Carol rated it it was amazing

An amazing recount of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina through a short graphic non-fiction book.
So much information comes from the pictures.

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