During the disastrous flood of 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a spoiled teen-age girl learns to accept responsibility as she and her companions search for their families and friends.
Full-color photographs and simple text describe facts about flooding, and discusses what floods are, river floods, flash floods, how to stay safe during a flood, and more.
The Great Flood of 1993 drowned America's heartland beneath inescapably rising waters. Unlike the fast moving devastation caused by a hurricane or earthquake, a flood unffolds as if in slow motion as it moves along a river.
In 1937 in southeastern Missouri, eleven-year-old Rass, son of a proud sharecropper, proves his worth when a flood destroys his family's home and forces his best friend, an elderly black man, into hiding from the Ku Klux Klan.
