Books like Hurricane Katrina by Ellen Rodger

Teenager Barry and his family confront the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, learning resilience in the face of a life‑altering disaster.

Jack and Annie time‑travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas, and witness the catastrophic Great Galveston Hurricane of September 8, 1900, the deadliest U.S. natural disaster.

Don Brown’s graphic novel memorializes Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, blending detailed illustrations with a factual, on‑the‑ground narrative that highlights both heroic acts and systemic failures.

108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.880L Lexile

*Shattered Lives* -- Violence, heartache, and three devastating hurricanes ravaged Madelaine LeBlanc's life in late summer 1860. In the luxurious Creole world of French food, meadow picnics, and silk-gown veranda parties, her father plots her marriage to a rich heir, and with the infamous Nightriders he secretly terrorizes the poor Cajuns in the swamps. Madelaine, searching desperately for a life of meaning and freedom, finds it at last in storm-wrecked fields, where Franoise Jarousseau helps her father rebuild their livelihood. But her family would never accept her love of a poor Cajun laborer. Can she really abandon her whole world for him? When Franoise's work is done, Madelaine despairs of ever seeing him again -- until a second hurricane threatens her father's crops, and he returns to the plantation. She can't resist their secret meetings, despite the risk of discovery. Her father's vengeance and the final hurricane break over them in one terrifying night. Will their love survive?

A factual account of Rubin Carter’s twenty‑year imprisonment, exploring wrongful conviction, racial bias, celebrity advocacy, and a Canadian team’s efforts to secure his release.