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Flooded : requiem for Johnstown / a novel in verse by Ann E. Burg.

Burg, Ann E., (author.).

Summary:

On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, below; told in the voices of six children and many others this is the story of the ordinary people of the town, their losses and their survival--and of the bitter aftermath when those for whom the dam was built denied all responsibility for the shoddy dam and the unnatural disaster which it caused. Told in blank verse.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781338540697
  • ISBN: 1338540696
  • Physical Description: 313 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Novel in verse.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 8-12. Scholastic Press.
Grades 4-6. Scholastic Press.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.4 3.0 Accelerated Reader Quiz #509865.
Lexile 900L.
F&P X.
Subject: Floods > Pennsylvania > Johnstown (Cambria County) > Juvenile fiction.
Dam failures > Pennsylvania > Johnstown (Cambria County) > History > 19th century > Juvenile fiction.
Survival > Juvenile fiction.
Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.) > History > 19th century > Juvenile fiction.
Social classes > Juvenile fiction.
Dam failures > Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Novels in verse.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Blair County Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Martinsburg Community Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Martinsburg Community Library JF Bur (Text) 1OMAR00088418R Juvenile Fiction Available -

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