Have you ever seen or visited a dam? Don't you just wonder how it is able to hold all that water? In Three Rivers Rising, that question is asked and answered. It is a fictional account of a true flooding that occurred in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1889. Written in free verse, it follows the lives of four families before and after the flood: Celestia and her wealthy family who vacation on the lake, Peter and his miner father from the Johnstown, Kate a nurse on a train to a new life and Maura a wife to a train conductor and mother of three young children. The character's lives intersect on the fateful day of the flood and the heart wrenching days that follow. This is a thrilling page turner. A must read.