Drowned city
Subtitle: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans
By: written and illustrated by  Don Brown
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780544157774; 9780544586178
Subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Disaster victims; Hurricane Katrina (2005) fast (OCoLC)fst01755264; Graphic novels; Juvenile literature; Racism; Comic books, strips; Social classes
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-96).

Ages 12-17.

Text in English.