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1888: Elizabeth Haberlin spends every summer with her family on a beautiful lake in an exclusive club in the Allegheny Mountains above Johnstown, Pennsylvania. When she discovers that the club's dam is about to burst, Elizabeth risks all to warn the townspeople. Present: On her eighteenth birthday, Lee Parker's closed adoption is unlocked. Finding genetic information and an old photo of a woman who looks like her standing in rubble next to Clara Barton,...
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It was the deadliest flood in U.S. history: a foot of rain in less than twenty-hour hours swelled the Little Conemaugh River, breached the South Fork dam, and killed more than 2,200 people. Roker presents a narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood. He chronicles key events, the damage that rendered the flood one of America's worst disasters, and the pivotal contributions of key figures.
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite...
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"On May 31, 1889, heavy rains and a dam failure sent flood waters sweeping into Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The 50-foot-high wall of water quickly demolished much of the town. Will you and your new husband be able to escape certain doom as you wait for your train to leave the station? Can you climb onto your house's roof for safety before the building completely fills with water? Will you join in the effort to save others who are floating by on the roofs...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown. Includes an author's note and historical timeline.
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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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 for the shoddy dam...
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Geological Survey professional paper volume 1211
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United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey
Pub. Date
1982.
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English