Scars from the Tornado: One Year at Joplin East Middle School

They lost their school, but they never lost their spirit

The deadly tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri May 22, 2011 killed 161 people and left 500 East Middle School students without a school In Scars from the Tornado, East Middle School students write their own tornado stories and they and their eighth grade English teacher tell the story of their first year attending school in a warehouse Scars from the Tornado is the heartwarming story of 500 students who made it through the worst tornado to hit the United States in six decades and the one student who did not make it.