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English
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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
Greenglass House volume 5
Language
English
Description
Nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story as a group of strangers trapped in an inn slowly reveal their secrets in this new standalone mystery set in the world of the best-selling Greenglass House, from a National Book Award nominee and Edgar Award'winning author.The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. Among them...
3) Flood
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Language
English
Description
Story, reminiscent of Noah's flood, depicts the effects of a devastating flood on a family and their home in this wordless picture book.
4) Lucy
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 27
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Charles finds Lucy, a basset mix puppy who has lost her home in a flood, he becomes determined to find her a good home, but his efforts are complicated when items go missing in the Peterson house.
8) Fly away
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While in North Dakota helping her Aunt Frankie prepare for a possible flood, Lucy finds her voice as a poet with the help of her two-year-old brother Teddy, the rest of their family, and a few cows.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, of course, along with their guards. But the fate of the court's Royal Flyers, a lauded fleet of aerial silk performers, is less certain. Hell-bent on survival, Principal Flyer, Natasha Koskinen, will do anything to save the flyers, who are the only family she's ever known. Even if "anything"...
11) Flood
Author
Series
Stay alive volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A group of children must learn how to survive when their town is flooded and the electrical power goes out after a bad storm.
Author
Series
I survived volume 21
Language
English
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Description
The city of Galveston, Texas, was booming. Perched on an island off the southern coast of Texas, Galveston had been founded in the 1830s. By 1900, it was Texas's richest and most important city. Boats loaded up with American cotton and wheat steamed from Galveston to countries around the world. Arriving ships were crowded with immigrants. The streets, paved with crushed oyster shells, sparkled like they'd been sprinkled with diamonds. True, this...
13) Too much rain
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When heavy rain causes flooding, Katie Woo and her parents spend the night in a shelter.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
[Pajama Press edition].
Language
English
Description
Forty years after a devastating flood changed the face of the earth, new consequences and challenges are still surfacing. Twins Will and Annalie thought the hardest part about this year was going to be their separation when bookish Annalie began life at a prestigious Admiralty-run boarding school and avid sailor Will stayed behind in the flood-damaged slums. But that was before the Admiralty raided their father's workshop. Before they sent a questioner...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 30
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back in time to Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, they find themselves facing a horrific storm that resulted in the worst natural disaster in US history.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
American edition.
Language
English
Description
After days of being in a cave with the rest of his herd due to torrential rains, Elmer the patchwork elephant is ready for some time alone, but first he must get help to rescue Young Elephant from an island formed by flood waters.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, below; told in the voices of six children and many othersthis is the story of the ordinary people of the town, their losses and their survival--and of the bitter aftermath when those for whom the dam was built denied all responsibility for the shoddy dam...
Author
Series
Sadiq volume 5
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A young Somali American and his classmates design a model city to withstand floods, using river walls, floodgates, gutters, and rain gardens.
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