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Saint Louis Armstrong Beach
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Earning money by playing the clarinet for New Orleans tourists, budding musician Saint remains behind to protect a stray dog when Hurricane Katrina hits and forces the pair to take shelter in an elderly neighbor's home. By the author of The Red Rose Box.
This book is about:
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005,
- Floods,
- Old age,
- Dogs,
- New Orleans (La.),
- Survival,
- Fiction
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Many Katrina books for kids have been published, but few of them balance the sorrow of that storm and its aftermath with the joy of childhood and the joie de vivre of New Orleans. Saint Louis Armstrong Beach achieves that balance, in part by sandwiching the hurricane per se within a story that focuses on life before the devastation and the determination that follows.
The book's hero is a kid named Saint. (You gotta love that.) He plays the clarinet on street... more
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