Flood: Mississippi 1927

For years, Garret and Molly have dreamed of seeing more of the world than cotton fields and the dusty poverty of their Mississippi Delta farms. They've been stashing away hard-earned pennies and nickels in a tin-can bank, hidden deep in the bayou. Now rising flood waters threaten the hiding place of their money, and they set out on their homemade raft to retrieve it.

But the raging Mississippi has other plans, and suddenly Garrett and Molly find themselves in a deadly battle with the dangerous currents and roiling rapids of their debris-strewn river--fighting not for their life savings, but for their lives.

Author: Kathleen Duey, K. A. Bale, A. Duey
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 07/01/1998
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.05w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780689821165

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 18766 / Flood: Mississippi, 1927


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 12/01/1998 pg. 121

About the Author
Kathleen Duey's works include the middle grade American Diaries and Survivors series, as well as the well-reviewed chapter book series The Unicorn's Secret and its companion series, The Faeries' Promise. She is also the National Book Award-nominated author of Skin Hunger. She lives in Fallbrook, California.

Karen A. Bale grew up in southern California and graduated from the University California Riverside. She has written seventeen historical romances, including the successful seven-book Sweet Medicine's Prophecy series. She has done freelance work for several years, including helping to write two nonfiction books. Karen still resides in southern California, ten miles from the Pacific Ocean.