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Resources to Help Understand and Explain Natural Distasters
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Fiction

Hurricanes

Galveston's Summer of the Storm by Julie Lake
A fourteen-year-old girl from Austin spends the summer of 1900 at her grandmother's home in Galveston and is caught in the Great Hurricane of September 8, 1900.
Y FIC LAK

The Great Storm: The Hurricane Diary of J.T. King, Galveston, Texas 1900 by Lisa Waller Rogers
A teenage boy keeps a diary of events during the devastating hurricane which struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900, and of the rescue operations that followed.
Y FIC Rog

Hurricane! by Corinne Demas
Margo and her family prepare for and experience Hurricane Bob, which makes the electricity go out for five days but leaves their house intact.
E FIC Dem

The Magic School Bus Goes Inside a Hurricane by Joanna Cole
When Ms. Frizzle's class takes a field trip to the local weather station, they end up in a hurricane.
E FIC Col

Galveston’s Summer of the Storm by Julie Lake
A fourteen-year-old girl from Austin spends the summer of 1900 at her grandmother’s home in Galveston and is caught in the Great Hurricane of September 8, 1900.
Y Fic Lak

Tsunamis

Low Tide by William Mayne
A tidal wave begins an adventure for three New Zealand children.
J Fic May

High Tide in Hawaii by Mary Pope Osborn
J FIC OSB

Revised and updated September 2005.

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