Three Rivers Rising
by:
Jame Richards (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375853692 (0375853693)
Publish date: September 13th 2011
Publisher: Ember
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
I bought this book while on a brief Noah's Ark/flood buying tangent on bookoutlet.com. Over a year ago. And each time I look at it, I think, why did I buy this one? It is YA fiction, which I like as a break between denser reads, and it has a real historic event as a background. All good so far, ...
The Johnstown flood is not very well known, so here's the short version: a swanky resort has a dam on the property. Apparently deciding that it's too much money and effort to keep it in good repair, the club does nothing at all to the dam for years. Of course, there's eventually a flood that breaks ...
This book was obviously historical, but I really enjoyed it because it was a story of something I had never heard of before, and the story was so heart-breaking that I did not feel that I was learning. The story was fiction but the events were all real.Celestia was a very like-able character, she fe...
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