First published 2025
Carmen has lived in Boston's North End for four years since moving from Italy with Papa. Their neighborhood bustles with activity, but a giant metal tank looms over the crowded streets. The tank holds molasses and has always leaked sticky brown liquid. Carmen never imagined the tank could burst open and send a wall of molasses rushing through the streets like a tsunami. When the tank explodes, Carmen finds herself trapped in the flood. She must battle for survival and protect the new life she and Papa have built in America. The disaster tests everything Carmen has learned about courage and determination. This graphic novel brings Lauren Tarshis's bestselling story to visual life with adapted text by Georgia Ball and artwork by Karen De La Vega. The book includes nonfiction pages with photographs and facts about the actual molasses flood that struck Boston in 1919.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, adventure, american-history
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, survival
Setting: Boston, North End
Period: 1919
160 pages · Hardcover · Graphix