No music playing or basketballs bouncing. The family awaits the storm with that same sense of positivity, knowing they have little choice but to face the unknown with courage.Īs a person who spent 25 years of her life in South Florida, I have sat out a few big hurricanes myself (including Andrew, who left the calling card of a tree on my car), and I thought that the author did an excellent job of describing the early arrival of the storm: His little sister is feverish and calls Katrina a “big fat lady in the sky” and sweet Barry feels badly about this description, deciding, in his imagination, that she is instead a “pretty singer, belting out her song.” This one involves a boy named Barry, his family, a dog named Cruz, and one Hurricane Katrina.īarry and his family are forced to return to their home during the pre-hurricane evacuation because his three-year-old sister comes down with the flu in the car. Tarshis does is create fictional characters who “reenact” actual events that happened during some of our biggest moments in American history.
Neither my preteen daughters nor I can get enough of them. She created the “I Survived” series for middle grades readers (and apparently their mothers), and each story is like a little bit of dynamite that explodes in the neural pathways of your brain within 90-100 pages.
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