Title: Taken Away
Description: This Young Adult novel gives a firsthand view of what it must have felt like for a high school girl named Sumbie in New Orleans to survive staying in the city during Hurricane Katrina. And she survived much more: her family stayed because her baby sister was in intensive care at a nearby hospital. When the infant is kidnapped from the PICU, and Sumbie's family must evacuate to Houston, mystery and slow-building romance ensue.
Subjects: young adult, Katrina, New Orleans, mystery, romance, kidnapping
Places: New Orleans, Houston
Time periods: 2005 when Katrina hits