Ocean State Libraries

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?

After global warming causes the sea to rise until cities in England become islands, ten-year-old Zoe goes on a harrowing solitary boat journey to search for her parents.

"A young Somali American and his classmates design a model city to withstand floods, using river walls, floodgates, gutters, and rain gardens." --

Hiking along the Virgin River in Utah, nineteen-year-old Amy, her brother, her fiance, and four friends battle a flashflood.

"On a terrifically rainy day, Ben has a dream in which he and his house float by the monuments of the world, half submerged in flood water." --

A visiting dove provides the answer to Grandmother Maloko's financial problems when floodwaters destroy her crops.

When a dike breaks during a violent storm, flooding a little Dutch town, Nico's baby is saved by his heroic cat.

"Thirteen-year-old Jillian Robichaux's coastal Louisiana town of Boutin suffers a catastrophic flood that might be too much for her community to overcome, but she is determined to keep both Boutin and its indomitable spirit alive."--

Stranded on the road by a flood and tornadoes, his mother wounded and his seven-year-old sister in desperate need of medical attention as a result of a snakebite, fourteen-year-old Paul exhibits heroism and resourcefulness.

Pandemonium reigns when a boy's bathtub overflows and floods the Irish town of Ballymara.