Picking Up the Pieces

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Sean M. Gardner for Weekly Reader

Kids play a game at the Sophie B. Wright Charter School during a Gulf Coast WalkAbout program.

In 2005, a destructive storm called Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Over 1,800 people died from the storm, and it was the most expensive reconstruction effort from a natural disaster in the United States. A year...

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