Natural disasters

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• Do Not Open, by Brinton Turkle in which a fierce storm (not a hurricane) that steals a trick from Puss n Boots.
• ESCAPING THE GIANT WAVE by Peg Kehret which is about a tsunami. And the protagonist survives
• Flood, by Mary Calhoun
• Galveston's Summer of the Storm, by Julie Lake,
• Gary Paulsen's books: There's a hurricane in Hatchet, a typhoon in Eastern Sun Winter Moon, and a hurricane in Caught By the Sea: My Life with Boats.
• Hurricane by Andrew Salkey
• Hurricane by David Wiesner comes to mind
• Hurricane by Jonathan London , set in Puerto Rico.
• Jacob Have I Loved_ by Katherine Paterson.
• One Lucky Girl by George Ella Lyon, DK ink 2000 - about a midwestern tornado.
• River Friendly, River Wild by Jane Kurtz
• THE TRUTH ABOUT SPARROWS, by Marian Hale (Holt 2004). Midgrade novel about a hurricane in 1933 Aransas Pass, TX.
• The Cay by Theodore Taylor has a powerful hurricane.
• The Great Gale by Hester Burton, about 1950s British children surviving severe floods caused by high winds.
• The Hurricane Tree by Libby Purves deals with the great storms in England in October 1987.
• The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods, which has two children who are on vacation when their parents die in a hurricane.
• They are Stolen by the Sea by Anna Myers,
• Time of Wonder Robert McCloskey is about a powerful storm that causes destruction of property -- but not people.
• Tornado by Betsy Byars
• Williwaw! by  Tom Bodettt has two kids in a boat trying to survive a major storm in an Alaskan bay.

 

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