This book relays the factual details of the BP oil spill through three different perspectives. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of an online investigator, California student, and Louisiana shrimper. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives while gathering and analyzing information about a modern event. Modern events never look the same to everyone. It often depends on one's perspective. In the Modern Perspectives series, readers will come to understand just that by learning the context, significance, and details of key events from this millennium through the eyes of three different people, while engaging with text through questions sparking critical thinking

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