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African Americans Fiction Floods Fiction Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Fiction Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Juvenile fiction New Orleans (La.) Fiction New Orleans (La.) Juvenile fiction New York (N.Y.) Fiction September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Fiction Survival Fiction Survival Juvenile fictionUhlberg, Myron.
Summary: When flood waters submerge their New Orleans neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a young cornet player and his parents evacuate their home and struggle to survive and stay together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Uhlberg 2012Tarshis, Lauren.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Tarshis 2011Tarshis, Lauren
Summary: Historical fiction. When disaster strikes, heroes are made. New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in the thrilling I SURVIVED series In this collection, witness unforgettable kids who, against all odds, survived sinking ships, shark attacks, the most destructive hurricane to hit North America, and the bombing that launched...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TARPhilbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)
Summary: A twelve-year-old boy and his dog become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PHIUhlberg, Myron.
Summary: When flood waters from broken levees submerge their New Orleans neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a young cornet player and his parents evacuate their home and struggle to survive and stay together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Envi Issues Uhlberg 2011Montañés, Mónica
Summary: "During the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, siblings Soccoro and Paco must live with constant secrets while they wait to reunite with their father, who fled Spain due to political persecution."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONOxtra, Cristina
Summary: While vacationing in Thailand for the holidays, Tara and her mother are thrown into survival mode when a massive tsunami sweeps through Phuket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OXTGratz, Alan
Summary: Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2021Gratz, Alan
Summary: It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2019Gilbert, Julie
Summary: For young Cora Moffat March 18, 1925 has been a bad day, but it gets much worse when her school is hit by the Tri-State Tornado, and she, her twin brother and her former best friend Claire, struggle to survive as the school and town are destroyed around them. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILSalisbury, Graham.
Summary: In 1975, eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a tsunami.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2007
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC SALGilbert, Julie
Summary: It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILFleck, Jessika
Summary: When the Twin Towers fall on September 11, 2001, blocks from her school, twelve-year-old Molly, unable to reach her dads or Gran, must find her seven-year-old sister, Adi, and get her safely home. Includes author's note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FLESaeed, Jamal
Summary: "Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2020