Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers)

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 …

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