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bickie's review
3.0
Engaging description of Hurricane Katrina and the events during the week after its landfall near New Orleans. Failures of governmental services as well as accounts of people working tirelessly to help others are described using quotes and facts. This book could be especially interesting for students wondering about how recent (2017) hurricanes may have affected populations in Houston, Puerto Rico, and Caribbean islands.
4saradouglas's review
3.0
It was okay, but felt impersonal. I prefer books where I feel a connection with people whereas this was mostly just factual with only a few words here and there from actual survivors.
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4.0
A very informative book, about this very upsetting event in history,
I can't believe that next year it will be 20 years since it happened.
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4/5
I can't believe that next year it will be 20 years since it happened.
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4/5
dacy's review
5.0
I had no idea about the details of this tragedy. Now I understand why a resident of a nearby parish told me when I was visiting New Orleans that the city got harder and meaner after the hurricane. Something like that will change a place and its people forever. Author and illustrator Don Brown shows the events in a straightforward manner while also being respective of people who were affected.
sarahanne8382's review
4.0
Brown does a great job putting the statistics of the Hurricane Katrina disaster into perspective with this graphic representation of the people who experienced, from the thousands stuck in the sweltering to Superdome for days without food or power, the elderly unable to leave their homes, police officers stranded in the city with no contact to their command structure, those forced to loot when the city remained flooded and without resources, and many more. It makes the tragedy real for kids without sensationalizing it. Very well done.
hayleybeale's review
5.0
Extraordinarily powerful combination of illustrations and straightforward and short text brings the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina to life for upper elementary and middle grade readers. See my full review here.
chantaal's review
5.0
This was a damn effective graphic novel. Spare art, stark reporting, no nonsense, lets you understand the depth of the disaster and the toll it took on New Orleans and the people who called it home.