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    Dark Water Rising

    Written by Marian Hale

    Narrated by Stephen Hoye

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    You'd think every dang person from Lampasas to Houston wanted to go to Galveston this hot August day. Everyone but Seth.

    Galveston, Texas, may be the booming city of the brand-new twentieth century, filled with opportunites for all, but to Seth it is the end of a dream. He longs to be a carpenter like his father, yet Papa has moved the family to Galveston so that Seth can become a doctor. Still, the last few weeks of summer might not be so bad. Seth has landed his first real job as a builder, and there's that girl across the street, the one with the sun-bright hair. Things seem to be looking up . . . until a storm warning is raised one sweltering afternoon.

    They say a north wind always brings change, but no one could ever have imagined this. Set during the Galveston Storm of 1900, this is an unforgettable story of survival in the face of natural disaster.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 18, 2007
    ISBN9780739367063
    Author

    Marian Hale

    Marian Hale is the author of acclaimed historical novels for young adults--The Truth About Sparrows, Dark Water Rising, and The Goodbye Season. She lives with her husband, daughter, and grandbabies on the Texas Coast.

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    • 4/5
      3.5 stars, but I'm rounding up. Hale doesn't fully capture the historical tone--her history is factually accurate, but it doesn't feel genuine somehow. She does, however, capture the sadness of a boy walking around the shell of Galveston in the immediate aftermath of the 1900 hurricane. I haven't read anything better on the topic (nothing realistic, anyway; Sean Stewart's Galveston was amazing in the magic realism genre), but that doesn't automatically make it a great book. I'd pass it to kids doing the historical fiction assignment, but it's not a must-have beyond that.
    • 5/5
      Excellent story. I felt like I was experiencing everything the family went through during and after the hurricane of 1900!
    • 3/5
      A story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, told from the point of view of a boy. I picked it up without giving any thought to the story it would tell -- it was quickly apparent disaster was coming and as I thought about the time and the location I realized what was coming. It was painful enough that I considered just putting the book down, but the story is well told and I was drawn in to a story that while painful was not as horrific as I first imagined.
    • 4/5
      I picked up this book when it came to my Middle School library. I am from the area around Galveston so I was drawn to the subject of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. It is the story of a family that moved to the booming town of Galveston, Texas at the turn on the century. They arrived just days before a hurricane that distroyed the entire town. The book although classified as fiction makes use of primary source historical materials and interviews of people who survived the horrible events.I enjoyed the book because I have been to the city many times and knew the history of the area and places mentioned. I also like they way the author incorporated the relationship between the white family and the unfair treatment of the black servents. I thought it was well handled while keeping the focus on the historical account of the area.