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21) Treme: Season 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Amid the ruins of New Orleans, ordinary people--musicians, chefs, residents--find themselves clinging to a unique culture and wondering if the city that gave birth to that culture still has a future.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Enjoying a quiet life in a tiny Louisiana fishing town, sixteen-year-old Evangeline is set adrift by Hurricane Katrina and must work through difficult political and cultural challenges to regain her sense of belonging.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
Description
The author provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous...
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 8
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Armani Curtis can think about only one thing: her tenth birthday. All her friends are coming to her party, her mama is making a big cake with blue icing and she has a good feeling about a certain wrapped box. Ten years old is a big deal to Armani. It means she's older, wiser, more responsible. But when Hurricane Katrina hits the Lower Nines of New Orleans and tears her world apart, Armani realizes that being ten means being brave, watching loved...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its "scarlet glare fixed on the trembling crescent," to the heartbreaking aftermath, these poems evoke the horror that unfolded in New Orleans as America watched it on television. Assuming the voices...
28) Hours
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.
29) Treme: Season 3
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Rampant crime and government ineptitude continue to cripple the city's recovery, with outside profiteers looking to cash in on short-term gains. The series' focus is still on ordinary people, but they no longer accept their lack of influence on the institutions that have controlled the city.
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 6
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"[In this graphic novel adaptation,] Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
As the city sank, its citizens cried out for help. Readers witness the hurricane that upended the American city of New Orleans as they discover the courage, selflessness, racism, and incompetency that rippled throughout Louisiana in the wake of the deadly storm. The story is presented in graphic novel format.
34) Hurricane song
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old Miles Shaw goes to live with his father, a jazz musician, in New Orleans, and together they survive the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome, learning about each other and growing closer through their painful experiences.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Molly is abandoned during Hurricane Katrina. After she is rescued, she is attacked by a dog and must undergo a rare surgery for horses: amputation of her front leg. Now fitted with a prosthetic limb, Molly re-learns how to walk and embarks on a new mission as a therapy horse. This remarkable story of a courageous horse is now in a brand-new format created especially for beginning readers"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS is a southern gothic fever dream, a voodoo-laced journey through the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Set adrift when his hometown of New Orleans is ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, Ham struggles for belonging between the Atlanta home of a childhood friend and the rural Alabama home of the mother of his child. As he reckons with his impending fatherhood, Ham navigates his new circumstances under the guidance of the spirit of St. Martin...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Patience is a South African penguin living at New Orleans' Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. When the Aquarium is severely damaged during Hurricane Katrina, many animals are put in peril, including Patience and the other penguins. They must leave their home, and their penguin keeper, until it is restored".
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Introduces hurricanes, describing how they are formed and become destructive and the devastating impact that one of the most dangerous storms to hit the United States, Hurricane Katrina, had on the city of New Orleans in 2005.
Author
Formats
Description
Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life." "After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Cooper felt a magnetic pull toward the unknown, an attraction to the far corners...