Status
Available
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Description
At the end of August 2005, ten-year-old Armani is looking forward to her birthday party in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she and her extended family live, but Hurricane Katrina is on the way, bringing destruction and tragedy in its wake.
Collections
Publication
n/a (2014)
Awards
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2019)
Georgia Children's Book Award (Finalist — Grades 4-8 — 2016)
Cardinal Cup (Honor — Older Readers — 2015)
California Young Reader Medal (Nominee — 2017)
Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Honor — 2017)
Golden Archer Award (Nominee — 2017)
Flicker Tale Award (Nominee — Juvenile Books — 2016)
Nerdy Book Award (Middle Grade Fiction — 2014)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Teen — 2014)
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Physical description
7.5 inches
ISBN
0545791642 / 9780545791649