I Survived The Great Molasses Flood, 1919 (I Survived #19)

I Survived The Great Molasses Flood, 1919 (I Survived #19) by Lauren Tarshis

Some Italian immigrants in Boston live close to big molasses storage tank. They hear the sounds from the tank and sometimes taste the molasses before they are ushered away. The young girl's father has died, leaving her to live with some friends. She is worried she will be sent back to Italy. Then she gets caught in the molasses flood. She survives, and then finds out that her grandmother had come to see her. The actual flood event occurs quite quickly.  Most of the details of the flood are in the afterward. The company was found guilty for taking shortcuts in the storage tank set up. (They tried to blame it on a bomb, but that did not fly.)