Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future

by Allan Drummond

Book Overview

The amazing story of one town's real-world effort to build back better!

In 2007, a tornado destroyed Greensburg, Kansas, and the residents were at a loss as to what to do next--they didn't want to rebuild if their small town would just be destroyed in another storm. So they decided they wouldn't just rebuild the same old thing; this time, they would build a town that could not only survive another storm, but one that was built in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374379998
• ISBN13: 9780374379995
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.2" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3