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More than a century later, the Galveston hurricane of 1900 is still the largest natural disaster in American history. Pounding most of the historic island city to rubble, and claiming perhaps as many as eight thousand lives, the storm stranded Galvestons stunned survivors without a bridge to the mainland. When the bridge was rebuilt, amazingly in eleven days, only the most stalwartlike fictive young diarist J.T. Kingwould choose to stay. Before the storm, J.T. is a normal, active teenager, swimming, riding his bike, and getting into scrapes with his best friend, Ippy. Though J.T. sleeps on a rickety cot in the pantry of his grandmothers boarding house, life at the corner of Q1/2 and 25th Street is as secure as the sturdy old house itself. But when the hurricane hits, brave and compassionate J.T. is poised to weather and record for all time the greatest storm any American has ever survived. As deadening winds and rain whip the waves thirty feet high, J.T.s blood chills at what those waves push ahead of them, an enormous wall of wreckage, at least three stories tall...houses, buggies, furniture,...bodies, and what I feared most gigantic segments of streetcar track that used to run along the beach. Slowly, the waves were shoving the pile of wood and steel north and right toward us. Extensive primary-source research forms the backbone of J.T.s thrilling authentic and richly detailed diary. An historic appendix, complete with photos and map, will be useful to young readers and teachers alike.
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Lisa Waller Rogers is the author of three Lone Star Journal novels for young readers, as well as an anthology, A Texas Sampler. She lives in Austin, Texas.
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- PublisherTexas Tech Press,U.S.
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0896724786
- ISBN 13 9780896724785
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages160
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