Character
The main character of Dark Water Rising.
Who is Seth Braeden?
Who is Marian Hale?
The author of Dark Water Rising.
The is the city where the main conflict took place
What is Galveston?
This surprise event catches the entire city off guard, changing Seth’s life forever.
What is theme?
Theme is the message that the book teaches.
The amount of siblings Seth has.
What is three siblings?
The year Dark Water Rising was published.
What is 2007?
Seth and his family live in this type of structure, typical for middle-class families of the time in Galveston.
What is a wooden house?
This is the job Seth wants to pursue.
What is Carpentry?
How did the people of Galveston rebuild the town?
They rebuild the town by uniting and working together.
This person is Seth's love interest.
Who is Ella Rose?
Before becoming a full-time author, Marian Hale worked as this type of professional in the education field.
What is a teacher?
This is where most people in Galveston take baths.
What is the bath house?
The job that Seth's father wants him to study for.
What is a doctor?
This person got caught with Seth and had to work on the barges.
Marian Hale has been an advocate for this cause, focusing on promoting literacy among young people.
What is literacy education?
This story takes place during the major natural disaster in 1900.
What is the Great Galveston Hurricane?
What was the first plan to get rid of the dead bodies? What was the problem with this plan?
Throw the bodies in the ocean. The bodies kept on washing ashore.
How is loss and grief related to this book?
The book shows how through loss and grief many characters in the story were developed.
Seth has strange dreams of working together with this person on a house after the hurricane hit.
Who is Zach?
The book received this prestigious award
What is the 2007 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year Award?
How did the position that Galveston was in affect the amount of damage the city received?
Galveston was a short town and it is stated in the book that most of the homes were only about 4 foot tall.
What was the second plan to get rid of the dead bodies?
Burn them.
How did Seth's sense of responsibility change as he went through the hurricane?
Seth started to be more responsible and caring about the community and realized he did not have to limit his responsibilities to just his family.