Bibliograph

Flooded, requiem for Johnstown, Ann E. Burg

Type

Label

Flooded, requiem for Johnstown, Ann E. Burg

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

900L, Lexile

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 8-12, Scholastic Press

resource.interestGradeLevel

Grades 4-6, Scholastic Press

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Flooded

Responsibility statement

Ann E. Burg

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 5.4, 3, 509865

Sub title

requiem for Johnstown

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

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification

Creator