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2) Inferno
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick finds himself unable to trust anyone but the being he has been warned will ultimately kill him, a situation that is complicated by his efforts to control his abilities and a sacrifice that he must make to defeat an ancient force.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
On her thirteenth birthday, Jalen unwittingly brings the twelve signs of the zodiac to life through a mysterious old book, and soon she, her friend Ellie, and Ellie's brother, Brennan, are battling in the streets of New Orleans to defeat the twelve and their little-known companion before time runs out.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delphine Denise Debreaux loves everything about the New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration, especially riding bikes with her friends in the parade, but this year she is determined to win the prize for best float, with or without them. Includes notes about Mardi Gras and New Orleans.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (253 pages)
Language
English
Description
In 1941, someone has kidnapped the daughter of corrupt New Orleans councilman Whitman Richards. Creole club owner Wesley Farrell is called in to go through the long list of Richards' enemies to find the one with the guts to try such a coup.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cassidy Blake and her ghostly friend, Jacob, have survived the ghosts of Edinburgh and Paris, but New Orleans is a haunted city in a class by itself, and that is the current stop for her parents' TV show; but there is something a lot scarier than ghosts here: the Emissary of Death is after Cassidy, and to defeat it she will need the help of the Society of the Black Cat and she will also be faced with a terrible choice--lose one of her two friends,...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the mysterious first aid kit takes golden retriever Ranger to New Orleans shortly before Hurricane Katrina hits, he finds himself helping Clare Porter and her grandmother, who are waiting for Clare's father at their home in the Lower Ninth Ward--andwhen the levees break and Clare is separated from Nana, Ranger must somehow get her to the relative safety of the Superdome, and reunite her with her family.
11) Floodgates
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faye and her team of archaeologists are fighting to save New Orleans' past after the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina. When they discover a corpse among the debris, her instincts tell her that Shelly wasn't just another flood victim-- and her suspicions make her the killer's next target.
13) Rent party jazz
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Sonny's mother loses her job in New Orleans during the Depression, Smilin' Jack, a jazz musician, tells him how to organize a rent party to raise the money they need.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Chronicle Books LLC paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Armani is looking forward to her tenth birthday party in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she and her extended family live, but Hurricane Katrina is on the way, bringing destruction and tragedy in its wake.
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 6
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
148 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"[In this graphic novel adaptation,] 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
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.
18) Ninth Ward
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
19) Pieces of why
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
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