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Flooded: Requiem for Johnstown
Ann E. Burg
Ages: 12+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1-338-54069-7
Keywords: Johnstown Dam, catastrophe, injustice, loss, healing, social class, environment
In lyrical verse, a chorus of six children and other witnesses share their personal stories about the catastrophic collapse of a dam in 1889.