Published August 30, 2010  Submitted by: Sharla

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,836 people lost their lives in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the1928 Okeechobee Hurricane; total property damage was estimated at $81 billion (2005 USD).

BOOKS

Children

• Hurricane Katrina by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin.
• Hurricane Katrina and the Devastation of New Orleans, 2005 by John A. Torres.
• Two Bobbies: a True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery.

Adults

• Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina by Phyllis Montana-Leblanc.
• Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson.
• Hurricane Katrina: the Storm that Changed America by the editors of Time; with an introduction by Wynton Marsalis.

DVDs

• Hurricane Katrina: the Storm that Drowned a City
• Inside Hurricane Katrina
• Trouble the Water