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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, healing, a swimming pool, and perhaps someone who can stop the bleeding from her head"--
Allison Brody is thirty-two and newly arrived on the East Coast after just managing to flee her movie producer boyfriend. She has some money, saved up from years of writing and waitressing, and so she spends it, buying a small house on the beach. But then a Category 3 hurricane makes...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 11
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Best friends since the first day of classes at The College of Charleston, Ashley Anne Waters and Mary Beth Smythe, now 23 years old, live in Ashley's parents' beach house rent-free. Ashley is a gallery assistant who aspires to become an artist. Mary Beth, a gifted cook from Tennessee, works for a caterer while searching for a good teaching job. Though they both know what they want out of life, their parents barely support their dreams and worry for...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A girl in Puerto Rico copes with the aftermath of a hurricane, including her family's temporary blue tarp roof and her brother's refusal to speak. Includes notes about the author's life in Puerto Rico and the yearly ritual of preparing for hurricanes.
Author
Series
Girl's guide (Laura Taylor Namey) volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Teenage Flora, still reeling from the loss of her mom, leaves England for sunny Miami, where her constant self-doubt about life, including romance, leads her straight into a love triangle.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross. Based on a true story. The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage--except six-year-old Hester,...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Después de que un huracán pasa por Puerto Rico, una niña y su hermano, Antonio, descubren que se les ha volado el techo de la casa. Una lona azul lo remplaza temporalmente. Bajo su nuevo techo, Antonio cesa de hablar por completo. A pesar de esta dificultad, los hermanos se mantienen juntos, y la lona azul enciende su imaginacion ... Inspirada por experiencias de la autora en Puerto Rico, esta es una tierna historia de reconstrucción y resiliencia...
Author
Series
Peachtree Bluff novels volume 4
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the newest installment of USA TODAY bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey's Peachtree Bluff series, three generations of the Murphy women must come together when a hurricane threatens to destroy their hometown-and the holiday season in the process"--
12) Ramona blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever. Since then, it's been Ramona and her family against the world. Standing over six feet tall with unmistakable blue hair, Ramona is sure of three things: she likes girls, she's fiercely devoted to her family, and she knows she's destined for something bigger than the trailer she calls home in Eulogy, Mississippi. But juggling multiple jobs, her flaky mom, and her well-meaning...
13) Storm rising
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
FBI special agent Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner Hawk head to Virginia Beach to help with search and rescue after a hurricane. They uncover a human trafficking ring run by some of the most powerful and influential powers in Virginia. With the evidence-- and victims-- washed away, Meg joins forces with Special Agent Walter Van Cleave to hide the scared teenage girl who is their only witness. And now dangerous enemies are coming out of the storm to...
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When his dad disappears, thirteen-year-old Cort is caught in a battle against a Gulf Coast hurricane. Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore lower Alabama and has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Category 3 storm makes landfall, Cort must unexpectedly put all his skills - and bravery - to the test. One catastrophe seems to lead to another, leaving Cort and two neighbor girls to face the storm as best...
16) Will & Whit
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Wilhelmina "Will" Huxstep is a creative soul struggling to come to terms with a family tragedy. She crafts whimsical lamps, in part to deal with her fear of the dark. As she wraps up another summer in her mountain town, she longs for unplugged adventures with her fellow creative friends, Autumn, Noel, and Reese. Little does she know that she will get her wish in the form of an arts carnival and a blackout, courtesy of a hurricane named Whitney, which...
17) Fish soup
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Set on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, "Waiting for a hurricane," follows a girl obsessed with escaping both her life and her country. Emotionally detached from her family and disillustioned with what the future holds, the takes drastic steps, seemingly oblivious to the damage she causes to herself and those around her. "Sexual education" examines the attempts of a student to tally the strict doctrine oabstinencece taught at her school with the very...
Author
Series
Sejal Sinha volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a storm threatens Diwali celebrations, eight-year-old Sejal Sinha, a spunky Indian-American girl with an active imagination, tries to use science to save her family's beloved holiday.
Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap's debut collection jumps right off the page, from the joy in her new novella, "A Spell for Foolish Hearts" to the terrifying tension of the urban legend "Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez.""--
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Magda Trudell is the present-day caretaker of Whimbrel Estate, the Key West home of the famous poet Isobel Reyes. Isobel's suicide at the residence in 1918 has nearly overshadowed her creative legacy-but Magda, a botanist and avid historian, is determined to protect it. Over the past decade, Magda has lovingly restored the house to the exact condition Isobel would have known. And even though a fierce October hurricane is headed straight for the Keys,...
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