Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

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 riveting 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. A portion of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans.

• Author
• Don Brown

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 96

• Publisher
• HMH Books for Young Readers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780544157774

• Genres
• history, comics, historical, teen, survival

• Release date
• 2015