Hurricane Katrina: 3 Story Paths, 27 Choices, 15 Endings

Description

It's late August 2005 and a storm is bearing down on the Gulf Coast. When it strikes Hurricane Katrina will be one of the deadliest and most destructive storms in U.S. history - especially for the residents of Louisiana and Mississippi. Will you Flee to the Superdome as floodwaters surge through New Orleans Try to save your store along the floodwalls near Lake Pontchartrain Attempt to ride out the storm at your fire station in Biloxi Mississippi Everything in this book happened to real people. And You Choose what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death.

cz Blake A. Hoena grew up in central Wisconsin, where he wrote stories about robots conquering the moon and trolls lumbering around the woods behind his parents house. He now lives in Minnesota and enjoys writing about fun things like history, space aliens, and superheroes. Blake has written more than fifty chapter books and dozens of graphic novels for children.

Designed to give readers a sense of being caught in the 2005 disaster, this entry in the You Choose: Modern History series offers fact-based experiences of three fictional victims. . . .A set of discussion questions related to Common Core principles follows a final chapter summarizing the overall damage and some of the infrastructure improvements made in the hurricane's wake. Informative, and this could also stimulate personal emergency planning.-- "Booklist"