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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

written and illustrated by Don Brown

August 2015

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 20 feet of water; property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion; and 1,833 people lost their lives. The riveting 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.

Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
written and illustrated by Don Brown

  • Publication Date: August 1, 2017
  • Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Young Adult 12+
  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
  • ISBN-10: 0544586174
  • ISBN-13: 9780544586178