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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, four friends from the same New Orleans neighborhood describe what happens to them and their community when they are separated, then reunited, as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
2) Hours
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (97 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nolan Hayes arrives at a New Orleans hospital with his pregnant wife, Abigail, who has gone into early labor. Things quickly spiral out of control when the birth goes tragically wrong and Hurricane Katrina hits, ravaging the hospital and forcing an evacuation. With his baby dependent on a ventilator and no one around to help, Nolan faces one life-and-death decision after another and must fight to keep his daughter alive.
3) Buddy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old "Li'l T" and his family face great losses caused by Hurricane Katrina, including leaving Buddy, their very special, three-legged dog, behind when they must evacuate.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Katrina disaster was not a weather event of summer 2005. It was a disaster a century in the making, a product of lessons learned from previous floods, corporate and government decision making, and the political economy of the United States at large. New Orleans's history is America's history, and Katrina represents America's possible future"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the mysterious first aid kit takes golden retriever Ranger to New Orleans shortly before Hurricane Katrina hits, he finds himself helping Clare Porter and her grandmother, who are waiting for Clare's father at their home in the Lower Ninth Ward--and when the levees break and Clare is separated from Nana, Ranger must somehow get her to the relative safety of the Superdome, and reunite her with her family.