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1) Zeitoun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the eerie days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and rescuing those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared. His wife Kathy, a boisterous Southerner who converted...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From American master James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in the maelstrom. In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt...
3) Liberty
Author
Series
Dogs of World War II volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1940s New Orleans, Fish Elliot is a polio-survivor with a knack for inventing and building things, and his African American neighbor Olympia is a girl with a talent for messing things up, but they are united in an effort to save a starving stray dog they call Liberty--and when Liberty is caged by a nasty farmer, they find an unlikely ally in a German prisoner of war, Erich, who is not much older than the two children.
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Six days a week, slaves labor from sunup to sundown and beyond, but on Sunday afternoons, they gather with free blacks at Congo Square outside New Orleans, free from oppression. Includes foreword about Congo Square by Freddi Williams Evans, glossary, and historical notes.
"As slaves relentlessly toiled in an unjust system in 19th century Louisiana, they all counted down the days until Sunday, when at least for half a day they were briefly able to...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
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Description
"A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands...
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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
Nest for Celeste volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Celeste, a mouse longing for a real home, becomes a source of inspiration to teenaged Joseph, assistant to the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, at a New Orleans, Louisiana, plantation in 1821.
Author
Series
Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 13
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A year after Tiana makes a deal with Dr. Facilier, she has her restaurant, her friends are safe, and her father is still alive, but soon shadows begin to gather and Tiana must work with Naveen and Charlotte to set things right or risk losing her soul.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, A Separate Country is based on the incredible life of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures. Robert E. Lee promoted him to major general after the Battle of Antietam. But the Civil War would mark him forever. At Gettysburg, he lost the use of his left arm. At the Battle of Chickamauga, his right leg was amputated....
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with relatives in New Orleans during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Elisabet determines to find a smuggler's treasure to ransom her imprisoned father.
12) Out of the Easy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1863, a young black woman, who embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army, crosses paths with a Jewish seamstress who helps her discover that even the most delicate threads have the capacity to save us.
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
New Orleans, 1840. Benjamin January has little use for politicians, but when a giant rally is planned to stir up support for the Whig presidential candidate, he finds himself intrigued. Trouble is brewing though, both political and romantic, and soon January finds himself investigating a murder ... with an innocent woman's life on the line.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 14
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Patience is a South African penguin living at New Orleans' Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. When the Aquarium is severely damaged during Hurricane Katrina, many animals are put in peril, including Patience and the other penguins. They must leave their home, and their penguin keeper, until it is restored".