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-- Drowned city: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans[2015]., Adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 976 .044 Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: On August 29, 2005, monstrous winds and surging water struck New Orleans, overwhelming the levees guarding the low-lying city. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. More than fourteen hundred people lost their lives. The riveting tale of Hurricane Katrina and the drowning of New Orleans is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage - and also of indifference, incompetence, and criminality.
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[2016], Juvenile, Little Bee Books Edition: First edition Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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
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c1995., Scholastic Call No: 370.19 342 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
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c1995., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: 370.19 342 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
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c1995., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: Biography BRIDGES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
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2004., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: 921 Edition: 1st Bookshelf ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
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1999., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: B BRIDGES Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.
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1999., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: B Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.
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1999., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Biography BRIDGES Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.
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1999., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Series Title: Cat RespectSummary Note: Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Disney, Hyperion Call No: Fic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The Strong family is having a reunion in New Orleans, and twelve-year-old Tristan is supposed to be keeping an eye on his younger cousin Terrance when several things happen at once: he sees his archenemy, King Cotton, and a mysterious girl grabs his magic cellphone; her name is Seraphine, and she seems to know everything about Tristan and the god Anansi (currently inhabiting the cellphone), and she has a mission for Tristan, one that is going to lead to a final confrontation with haint King Cotton.
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c2011., Bearport Pub. Call No: 299.6 750976335 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: HorrorScapesSummary Note: Provides information about the Voodoo religion as practiced in New Orleans in the nineteenth century, and discusses the activities of so-called Voodoo queen Marie Laveau.
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c1991., Capstone Press Call No: 973.5 SANFORD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: SoldierSummary Note: Recreates the experiences of one soldier in the War of 1812 as he fights with Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans.