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The Great Saint Patrick's Day Flood
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Description
Adventure, danger, and heroism.
For readers 7 and up.
It's March 1936 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers are rising rapidly with flooding likely. Eleven-year-old Billy Flynn and his seven-year-old brother Tommy are happy when school is cancelled. The boys' excitement soon turns to fear and awe as the rivers overflow their banks and people are forced to flee from their homes and work. Soon they experience life as they've never known it, discovering real courage and honor along the way.
Features
- Theme: 20th century, Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction, Children: Grades 3-4, Fiction, Floods, General, History, Juvenile fiction, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (Pa.)
- Date Published: March 15, 2004
- Publisher: Local History Co.
- Author: Mildred S. Flaherty
- Pages: 110
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Paperback
Additional Information
- ASIN: 0971183589
- ISBN: 0971183589
- Item can be gift wrapped.
