Ninth Ward

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a beautiful story about a special twelve-year-old girl named Lanesha, who lives in New Orleans with Mama Ya-Ya. It is hurricane season, and Katrina is bearing down on the city. Lanesha is different from most of the 7th grade girls in her school, she has no friends, but Lanesha can "see" ghosts, she sees her own mother almost every day. The writing is beautiful, the tension builds as the big storm is about to hit, and Lanesha does what she has to do to survive. Good story, great characters.


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