I Survived Hurricane Katrina Book Report

I Survived Hurricane Katrina, by Lauren Tarshis, is a historical fiction book. This book is about a kid named Barry who lives in New Orleans with his mom, dad and little sister Cleo. In the beginning of the book Barry was showing his friend Jay the picture of a superhero he created to win a contest, but they were interrupted by Barry’s dad and told him to pack, they were moving out of their home town because there was going to be a big hurricane. As they were on the highway to get out of town Barry’s little sister got sick and they had to go back to their house and wait out the storm. Barry’s mom and sister were sleeping while Barry and his dad were watching the game and he slowly went to sleep, when he woke up their was water in his house and him and his family went to the attic and got up on the roof, but Barry fell into the water and climbed …show more content…
I liked how the author described what was happening and what everything looked like, like when Barry was about to jump in the water to save Cruz and the author described what the water looked like and what was in the water . I also liked how the author made the cover of the book realistic because it shows the water and what a hurricane might have looked like. I think the author should have done better with one part about the picture on the cover though, in the book it said Barry didn't have any shoes on while he was trying to survive the hurricane but on the book cover it shows him with shoes on. I didn't like how it talked about Berry falling in the water and then it didn't say anything else about his family and what happened to them while all this was happening to Barry. I also didn't like how the book said that Barry saw a poisonous snakes in the water while he was trying to find food but then after that it didn't mention anything else about him watching out for