hurricane katrina, 2005

A collection of poems by Patricia Smith that explore the devastating impact Hurricane Katrina had on the city of New Orleans, its people, and the country as a whole.

A look at Hurricane Katrina, focusing on dogs that were separated from their owners and how they were reunited with them.

Explains what causes floods, how the United States prepares for them, the destruction they leave behind, and the flooding that occurred after Hurricane Katrina.

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.

Eleven-year-old Barry Hunter and his family attempt to ride out Hurricane Katrina at home in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans when his little sister gets ill, but when the levees break, Barry gets swept away from his family.

Twelve-year-old Li'l T and his family face great losses from Hurricane Katrina, including leaving their very special, three-legged dog behind when they must evacuate.

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?.

Collection of four fiction stories featuring kids in the path of disaster, including the Titanic, Hurricane Katrina, shark attacks, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Jimmy, a yellow Labrador puppy, is separated from his Lake Charles, Louisiana, family and survives the horrors of Hurricane Katrina on his own before being rescued and taken to New York City, where he tries to fit in with a new family and the many neighborhood dogs, and accept his new name.

With kinetic art and compelling narrative, captures the tragedy of 2005's Hurricane Katrina, and the triumph of the human spirit in the face of disaster, bigotry, and official incompetence.