This book is part of a book series called X-Treme Disasters That Changed America .

This book was published by Bearport Publishing .

W. Scott Ingram is the author of more than fifty books for young people. He is the recipient of six Educational Press Awards for his writing, including the 1999 Fiction Award for his short story ""Shadowland. "" In 2005, Scott received an NAACP Image Award for Children's Literature for his book The 1963 Civil Rights March.