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Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood

By Jame Richards

Book information

Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Year
2010
ISBN
9780375895531, 2009004251
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2087043 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-27 16:02:00
Historical FictionromanceYAF024150YAF052030YAF058190young adult fictionYoung Adult Literature

Description

Sixteen-Year-Old Celstia spends every summer with her family at the elite resort at Lake Conemaugh, a shimmering Allegheny Mountain reservoir held in place by an earthen dam. Tired of the society crowd, Celestia prefers to swim and fish with Peter, the hotel’s hired boy. It’s a friendship she must keep secret, and when companionship turns to romance, it’s a love that could get Celestia disowned. These affairs of the heart become all the more wrenching on a single, tragic day in May, 1889. After days of heavy rain, the dam fails, unleashing 20 million tons of water onto Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the valley below. The town where Peter lives with his father. The town where Celestia has just arrived to join him. This searing novel in poems explores a cross-class romance—and a tragic event in U. S. history.

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