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Lamana, Julie T.
UPSIDE DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
New York : Chronicle Books, 2014
IL 5-8, RL 4.7
ISBN
1452124566
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Armani lives with her family in a New Orleans community where she enjoys visiting the local donut shop. Her main thoughts swirl around her upcoming birthday party, but then the party is interrupted by the worst hurricane to ever make landfall in history, Hurricane Katrina. Is there any hope that her life will be the same again? (Booktalk by the Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Committee)


SUBJECTS:     African Americans -- Fiction.
                        Family life -- Fiction.
                        Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.
                        Lower Ninth Ward (New Orleans, La.) -- Fiction.
                        New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
                        Survival -- Fiction.



 
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