Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere, written by Juliet T. This book is a reflection of those experiences.
Lamana lives in Greenwell Springs, Louisiana, and worked in an after-school program for children displaced by Hurricane Katrina, gaining a unique insight into their experiences surviving the storm. Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere will appeal to young people who have had to cope with catastrophe and its aftermath.Īdd this book to your collection: Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere Through her maturing perspective, young people can find inspiration in her growing strength and wisdom and her family’s resilience in the wake of more than one tragedy. Everyone had the same look-scared, confused, hungry, and wore down.”Ĭharacters and situations ring true. It was like all the sorrows coming together was turning into its own somebody. “The heaviness up inside my own self was growing bigger and harder to carry every time another soggy, sad somebody joined our growing group. Step by step, she leads a reader through uneasy anticipation of the storm, the shock of its power and destruction, and the harrowing situations after rescue. The author experienced firsthand much of what her characters go through in this amazing novel. True to life, surviving family members each internalize blame for something no one could have foreseen. Mistakes are made by everyone in the family. Nearly everyone has read about Hurricane Katrina, but Lamana’s vivid writing makes a reader live through it and experience it through a ten-year-old’s eyes instead of a newscaster’s reportage. Armani and her family are swept into a maelstrom of floods, wreckage, loss of lives, separations, illness due to water pollution, and the unrelenting chaos of a city turned inside out. The celebration is convivial, but uneasy, as friends warn them to leave. As a precaution, they change plans to a family party for Armani’s siblings, parents, her grandmother, Memaw, her uncle, and his lady friend. But storm warnings keep her grandmother and father riveted to the news. What to Expect: Gripping scenes that plunge a reader into the reality of a hurricane strong, believable characters cross-cultural friendships that rise above earlier prejudices.įriday afternoon, August 26, 2005, seems innocently like any other Friday to Armani Curtis, except for excitement over her tenth birthday and the party her family is planning. Publisher: Chronicle Books Reprint edition (July 21, 2015)
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