Flooded : requiem for Johnstown by Burg, Ann E. 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 172878 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG Lexile: 900 F&P: X

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Novels in verse Floods - Fiction Dams - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.) - History|y19th century - Fiction

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 and the unnatural disaster which it caused.