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Ninth Ward

In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Juvenile fiction. Spirits > Juvenile fiction. Survival > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. New Orleans (La.) > Juvenile fiction. Coming-of-age fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:	In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
Physical Description:	217 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:	9780316043076 0316043079 9780316079822 0316079820
Author Notes:	Jewell Parker Rhodes is an award-winning author. Her books include Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass' Women, Season, Moon, Hurricane, and the children's book, Ninth Ward. She is also the author of the writing guides Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction. Her work has been published in Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and reproduced in audio and for NPR's "Selected Shorts." Rhodes honors include: the American Book Award, the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Outstanding Writing, and two Arizona Book Awards. Rhodes is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and Artistic Director of Piper Global Engagement at Arizona State University. (Bowker Author Biography)