TY - SER
KW - Pennsylvania Railroad
KW - Cambria Iron Company
KW - teenagers
KW - Johnstown Flood of 1889
AU - Marden Dahlstedt
AB - A Johnstown Flood novel in which young Megan Maxwell is swept away on a mattress when a wall of water destroys her house. A raft bearing two actors from a traveling show, an old watchmaker, and a messenger boy rescues Megan. All begin a collective search for family and friends.
C1 - 1889
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Cambria County; Lake Conemaugh;  (tributary); Little Conemaugh River; Johnstown; E. Conemaugh; South Fork; Westmoreland County; Ligonier
C4 - Children’s; Historical; Mystery; Disaster
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - The novel draws on eyewitness accounts and family stories, as the author’s grandparents were Johnstown Flood survivors.
N2 - A Johnstown Flood novel in which young Megan Maxwell is swept away on a mattress when a wall of water destroys her house. A raft bearing two actors from a traveling show, an old watchmaker, and a messenger boy rescues Megan. All begin a collective search for family and friends.
PB - Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.
PP - New York
PY - 1972
RN - Marden Dahlstedt (1921—1983) was a school librarian in Cheswick, Allegheny County and in Beach Haven, New Jersey.
EP - 125 p.
TI - The Terrible Wave
ER -