Drowned city

Description:

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.

subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005,  Disaster victims,  Hurricane Katrina (2005) fast (OCoLC)fst01755264,  Graphic novels,  Juvenile literature,  Racism,  Comic books, strips,  Social classes,  Hurricanes,  Hurricanes, juvenile literature,  New orleans (la.), history,  Disasters,  Disasters, juvenile literature,  United states, juvenile literature,  award:Sibert_award,  lexile:920,  lexile_range:901-1000,  lexile_code:GN,  age:min:12,  age:max:undefined,  grade:min:7,  grade:max:9

Places: United States,  New Orleans,  Louisiana