Hurricanes bad weather booktalk

“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