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“A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”
Taken in New York City on Monday night
First, meet Katrina…Video
Ninth Ward(REALISTIC RHO)
• 9th Ward is largest ward of New Orleans
• Really hit hard by Hurricane Katrina in 2005
• Fictional story of a 12-year old girl enduring the storm with her adopted grandmother
• fiction
Lower Ninth Ward devastation after Katrina
A Storm Called Katrina(E UHL)
• Picture book about Hurricane Katrina
• Family tries to survive flooding and evacuation
• fiction
• Galveston, TX flooding after a hurricane in 1900
• “Hurricane of 1900”—occurred before meteorologists started naming hurricanes
• fiction
Dark Water Rising(HISTORICAL HAL)
Terror From the Gulf(HISTORICAL JON)
• 12-year old Charlie fears water because his father died in a boating accident
• Must survive Galveston Flood of 1900
• fiction
Three Rivers RisingHISTORICAL RIC
• Girl and her boyfriend try to survive devastation during the Johnstown Flood of 1889 (Pennsylvania)
The Dead & the Gone(SCI-FI PFE)
• The moon is hit by a large asteroid, which moves it closer to the earth
• Alex and his two sisters are left alone in their New York City apartment
• Causes massive global devastation/natural disasters
• Read it if you like movies like The Day After Tomorrow
Dangerous Crossings910.4 VOG
• Stories of people who face terrible danger on or near the ocean—hurricanes, piracy (modern pirates), terrorism, glaciers, etc.
• Specifically discusses Titanic, The Perfect Storm, Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Kursk submarine disaster
• nonfiction
Storm Runners(ACTION SMI)
• 13-year boy travels country chasing storms with his father
• Gets stuck with his friend in St. Petersburg, FL during a major hurricane
• Survival story• fiction
HurricaneACTION TRU
• 13-year old boy rides out Hurricane Mitch, one of the worst storms to hit the Caribbean
• 1998, small village in Honduras
• fiction