Ninth Ward, Jewell Parker Rhodes
Ninth Ward, Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Ninth Ward

Author: Jewell Parker Rhodes

Narrator: Sisi Aisha Johnson

Unabridged: 4 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/18/2010


Synopsis

Acclaimed novelist Jewell Parker Rhodes is an American Book Award winner. Rhodes' Ninth Ward is a stunning tale set against the horrors of Hurricane Katrina. Orphaned 12-year-old Lanesha lives with Mama Ya-Ya, the midwife who birthed her, in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. Although Lanesha is different-able to see ghosts like that of her dead mother-she never feels unloved, an empowerment that helps her survive the devastating storm. "If there are awards for books that celebrate the triumph of the human spirit, this one is a clear contender."-Children's Literature

About Jewell Parker Rhodes

Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes is the author of six adult novels: Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, Season, Moon, and Hurricane, as well as the memoir Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness and two writing guides, Free within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction. Jewell is also the author of seven books for youth, including the New York Times bestsellers Ghost Boys and Black Brother, Black Brother. She has won the American Book Award, the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence, and the Jane Addams Peace Association Book Award. Jewell is the founding artistic director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing and narrative studies professor and Virginia G. Piper endowed chair at Arizona State University. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Carnegie-Mellon University. She lives in Seattle, Washington.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Zoë on October 15, 2017

Read for my young adult literature class.......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on November 18, 2010

I'm sorry, I think I liked this one a lot more in theory than in execution. A charged political issue (Hurricane Katrina), the subtle magical realism/supernatural elements more common in children's lit. today (a narrator that sees ghosts), and a 12-year-old strong female narrator coming of age all s......more

Goodreads review by Wilhelmina on May 23, 2011

I fell in love with the protagonist of this book - 12-year-old Lanesha, an orphan raised by Mama Ya-Ya, the elderly midwife who delivered her. Lanesha can see and communicate with ghosts, but she also loves mathematics and words and longs to be an engineer. She has to use all of her talents, and a g......more

Goodreads review by Rkdk47 on January 16, 2011

This is a great heart warming story about a child's perspective of the the Katrina disaster. The author mixes in some of the fantasy and mystery of New Orleans along with the normal aspects of being a middle school student in search of an identity. Her unique way of introducing vocabulary through th......more

Goodreads review by Charlotte on January 31, 2020

This is a book that is just plain unequivocally Good, in its writing, its story, its characters, and even in the much more subjective territory of the feelings it left me with. Lanesha has lived all her twelve years in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans secure in the love of Mama Ya-Ya, the wise old woman......more