Rhodes, Jewell Parker.

Ninth Ward / Jewell Parker Rhodes. - New York : Scholastic, 2012, c2010. - 217 p. ; 20 cm.

Originally published: New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2010.

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.

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book, 2011.

ISBN: 9780545489553 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Fiction.
Spirits--Fiction.
Grandparent and child--Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Fiction.
Divination--Fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ninth Ward (New Orleans, La.)--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.R3476235 / Ni 2012

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]