Three Rivers Rising: The Novel of the Johnstown Flood

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Rh Childrens Books
Published: 09/13/2011
ISBN: 9780375853692
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 136668 / Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood
Reading Level: 4.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 4