River Friendly, River Wild

Written by Jane Kurtz, illustrated by Neil Brennan, this tells the story from a child's perspective, of the 1997 flood on the Red River at Grand Forks. Although the story focuses on North Dakota events, many people in Minnesota were also affected by this flood, and this does a nice job of showing how families and neighborhoods are displaced by a natural disaster. It was selected for the National Council for the Social Studies outstanding trade books list in 2001.