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Outside, The Wind Is Howling.It Is A Monster Shrieking To Get Inside.Outside, The Rain Is A Solid Wall Of Water.Everything Is Dark.Everything Is Destroyed.Everything Is Gone....Everything Except For The Desperate Courage Of Those Who Survive That Terrifying Night. After Hours Of Cowering In The Dark With No Lights, No Warmth, And The Terrible Noises Of The Rain And Wind Pounding On The Walls, José Walks Out His Front Door And Steps Into A Nightmare.but His Nightmare Has Only Begun As He And The Few Who Are Left In His Small Village Start To Pull Their Lives Back Together.based On Hurricane Mitch's Devastation Of Honduras In 1998, Terry Trueman's Powerful Story Is About A Young Boy's Fear And Courage In The Face Of A Force Of Nature Too Huge To Even Imagine.publishers Weeklyset In A Tiny Village In Honduras, Trueman's (stuck In Neutral) Novel Is Based On Hurricane Mitch And The Devastation It Wrought In 1998, And Informed By The Author's Experiences Teaching In San Pedro Sula In 1981-1982. Trueman Explains In An Endnote That Mitch Was The Worst Storm To Hit The Caribbean In 200 Years: As The 13-year-old Narrator, José, Experiences It, Mitch Is Cataclysmic. Striking While José's Father, Older Brother And Sister Are Out On The Road, The Calamitous Weather Induces A Mudslide That Destroys All But Two Of The Houses In The Village And Buries Most Of The Residents. It Falls To José To Conquer His Fear And Be The Man Of The House. Trueman Doesn't Flinch From The Grislier Facts (in One Scene, José Leads A Dig For Groceries And Finds The Corpse Of The Grocer), But Although He Describes José's Thoughts And Reactions He Stints On The Sensory Details. Accordingly, Readers Will Understand The Impact Of The Storm, While The Style And The Almost Miraculous Happy Ending May Insulate Them From Feeling Too Much Of It For Themselves. An Addendum Links This Novel (first Published In A Different Form In The U.k. In 2003) With The Events Surrounding Hurricane Katrina. Ages 10-up.(mar.)copyright © Reed Business Information, A Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Published by HarperCollins in 2008.

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ISBN-13: 60000198

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144 pages

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