Full name: Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood

Author: Jame Richards Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Romance, Poetry Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble eBooks.com LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780375858857 0375858857

Sixteen-Year-Old Celstia spends every summer with her family at the elite resort at Lake Conemaugh, a shimmering Allegheny Mountain reservoir held in place by an earthen dam. Tired of the society crowd, Celestia prefers to swim and fish with Peter, the hotel's hired boy. It's a friendship she must keep secret, and when companionship turns to romance, it's a love that could get Celestia disowned. These affairs of the heart become all the more wrenching on a single, tragic day in May, 1889. After days of heavy rain, the dam fails, unleashing 20 million tons of water onto Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the valley below. The town where Peter lives with his father. The town where Celestia has just arrived to join him. This searing novel in poems explores a cross-class romance-and a tragic event in U. S. history. Similar books: Secrets & Sapphires by Leila Rasheed Cate of the Lost Colony by Lisa Klein Anastasia's Secret by Susanne Dunlap The Coffin Quilt by Ann Rinaldi The Other Countess by Eve Edwards Wildthorn by Jane Eagland The Blue Door by Ann Rinaldi Time Enough for Drums by Ann Rinaldi The Staircase by Ann Rinaldi A Stitch in Time by Ann Rinaldi Prisoner of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin Passion by Jude Morgan I Am Regina by Sally M. Keehn Broken Days by Ann Rinaldi In My Father's House by Ann Rinaldi Cleopatra's Moon by Vicky Alvear Shecter Crossing Stones by Helen Frost The Cider House Rules by John Irving The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber