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The Mud Angels: How Students Saved the City of Florence by Karen M. Greenwald and Olga Lee

Happy Monday from Prague! I'm thrilled Karen M. Greenwald returned to Watch. Connect. Read. to finish my sentences. We discussed Florence, Olga Lee's illustrations, school libraries, research, and more. I wrote the words in purple, and she wrote the words in black . Thank you, Karen!  The Mud Angels: How Students Saved The City of Florence tells the story of the Arno River’s 1966 dramatic, surprise flood in Florence, Italy. After enormous waves crash into buildings, museums, centers of worship, homes, and other structures, they leave behind tons of smelly, viscous, oil-filled mud. Everywhere. Covering everything. A young narrator watches as students from the US and other countries courageously trek through dangerous filth to save Florence’s rarest treasures. Their destination is the Central Library of Florence, which houses a copy of every piece of Italian literature (including originals from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). The students are in a race against time (a

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