Distress signal by Lambert, Mary E. 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 680306 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Field trips - Fiction Camping - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Floods - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Chiricahua National Monument (Ariz.) - Fiction

Summary: Lavender and the rest of the sixth-graders are on a camping trip to the Chiricahua wilderness, but the trip seems cursed from the start, and when a flash flood splits the group up Lavender finds herself lost, together with her former best friend Marisol, mean-girl Rachelle, and a boy John who has been behaving like a surly jerk since the start--they have only one pack of supplies and only the most basic wilderness knowledge, but if they are to survive they need to put their differences aside.

Flooded : requiem for Johnstown by Burg, Ann E. 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 172878 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 900 F&P: X

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Novels in verse Floods - Fiction Dams - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.) - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam built to create a man-made lake for America's wealthiest businessmen collapsed, unleashing twenty million tons of water onto the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, below; told in the voices of six children and many others this is the story of the ordinary people of the town, their losses and their survival--and of the bitter aftermath when those for whom the dam was built denied all responsibility and the unnatural disaster which it caused.

I survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 by Tarshis, Lauren 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2016)

BTSB #: P03643 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   


Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Fiction Floods - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction African Americans - Fiction New Orleans (La.) - Fiction

Summary: When Barry's little sister gets sick, his family stays home to wait out Katrina. But the levees break and floodwaters separate him from his family.

I survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011. #8 [I survived Volume: #8]by Tarshis, Lauren 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2013)

BTSB #: 872570 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-10   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 3.7 3-5 Lexile: 650 F&P: Q

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Survival skills - Fiction Floods - Fiction Japan - Fiction

Summary: [#8] During the heart stopping events of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, one boy struggles to make it out alive.

Saving Eli's library by Horowitz, Ruth 

BTSB Prebound(Whitman, 2020)

BTSB #: 464189 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   


Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Libraries - Fiction Floods - Fiction Helping behavior - Fiction Community life - Fiction

Summary: Eli loves his local library, so when it is threatened by a flood he and his father help save the books and, after the storm, join their whole community to make things better. Inspired by a true story.

Storm by Napoli, Donna Jo 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014)

BTSB #: 667273 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 3.8 UG RC: 5.1 9-12 Lexile: 520 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Survival skills - Fiction Animals - Fiction Noah's ark - Fiction Floods - Fiction

Summary: Having lost her family in a massive flood, sixteen-year-old Sebah finds her way onto a gigantic ark, where she must conceal herself from Noah and his family until it is safe for her and another stowaway to slip away.