Louisiana ? School libraries wiped out by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are getting grants worth $500,000 to help them rebuild, along with a rare magazine collection, first lady Laura Bush and media executives announced Wednesday.

Bush, a former librarian and public school teacher, announced the grants at Chalmette High School in St. Bernard Parish, where every building – including 15 schools – was flooded.

Seven public and private schools in Louisiana and three in Mississippi will receive the money from the Laura Bush Foundation’s Gulf Coast Library Recovery Initiative.

“Rebuilt libraries will bring children back to their schools, and rebuilt schools will help bring families back to the revitalized Gulf Coast,” Bush said at her second stop, Gorenflo Elementary School in Biloxi, Miss.

Of 13,000 books in the library at Gorenflo, only seven could be salvaged after a 6-foot flood, said librarian Holman Hunt Jr. The school is not expected to reopen until January.

Every school that gets a grant from the foundation also is getting magazines from Time Inc., chairman and chief executive officer Ann Moore announced. Time also will provide books along with German media giant Bertelsmann AG.