Jewell Parker Rhodes, Author . S&S/Atria $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1009-0
Frederick Douglass's love life was nearly as tumultuous as his political career—or so Rhodes (Voodoo Dreams; Magic City) posits in this vividly imagined recreation of the romantic triangle formed by the great abolitionist, his black wife...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes, Author . Atria $24 (293p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3710-6
In the second book in her fantasy-tinged New Orleans trilogy, Rhodes delivers a taut narrative with the creepy fantastical twists her fans will recognize and expect. Marie Levant, great-granddaughter of New Orleans voodoo queen Marie Laveau, is an...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes, Little, Brown, $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-04307-6
With a mix of magical and gritty realism, Rhodes’s (Voodoo Dreams) first novel for young readers imagines Hurricane
Katrina and the subsequent flooding through the eyes of resourceful 12-year-old Lanesha. Lanesha lives with Mama Ya-Ya, an 82-year-ol
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Jewell Parker Rhodes, Author Picador USA $16 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-11931-7
NEA Fiction Award winner Rhodes's first novel brings to life a legendary 19th-century voodoo priestess. (Feb.)
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Jewell Parker Rhodes, Author Broadway Books $14 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7679-0578-7
Jewell Parker Rhodes presents another, genre-specific guide for writers, The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction, and this one puts more emphasis on the process of writing not, however, at the expense of valuable...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes, Author Atria Books $24 (277p) ISBN 978-0-7434-8327-8
Medicine and voodoo may seem at odds, but Marie Levant, first-year resident at New Orleans's Charity Hospital, discovers she has a gift for more than one kind of healing. Rhodes develops this theme to full advantage in her second book (after Voodoo...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (436p) ISBN 978-0-312-09869-8
NEA Fiction Award-winner Rhodes introduces a fearsome heroine and comments on the slave trade in an astute, evocative first novel based on the life of an actual voodoo priestess. From the age of 10, Creole girl Marie Laveau has visions of voodoo...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes, Washington Square, $14 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3712-0
In the third volume of Rhodes's voodoo-inspired series (after 2009's Moon), an environmental disaster brews in New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina threatens. Dr. Marie Laveau, a descendant (and perhaps reincarnation) of the legendary voodoo queen,...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-04305-2
In 1870 Louisiana, five years after the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery, Sugar is still bound to the crop whose name she shares: “I’m ten now. I’m not a slave anymore. I’m free. Except from sugar.” Sugar and her mother had been waiting for the
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Jewell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown, $17 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-22484-0
One summer, nearly-10-year-old Maddy Johnson gets swept up in the mysteries of the Louisiana bayou. She’s the youngest of her five sisters and the last to spend a summer with her Grandmère Lavalier, hours from her family’s home in New Orleans....
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Jewell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-26222-4
With the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaching, Dèja’s fifth-grade teacher draws the students’ attention to the skyline outside their classroom window, pointing out where the towers once stood. At first, Dèja is unable to fathom how...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-26228-6
Set in an impoverished Chicago neighborhood, this somber story blends history with current events. Jerome Rogers, a black 12-year-old, is playing outside with a toy gun when he is shot and killed by a white policeman who views him as a threat. Now...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-49380-2
In this novel, Rhodes brings middle graders a story of two biracial brothers, Donte and Trey, navigating racism, colorism, and bullying. Older brother Trey, the lighter-skinned sibling of the boys’ black (“Mom thinks Nigerian and Congolese”) mother...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-49383-3
Inspired by real events, Parker Rhodes (Black Brother, Black Brother) makes her entrée into climate fiction with the story of narrator Adaugo (Addy), a Black 15-year-old from the Bronx. Living with an overwhelming fear of fire after losing her...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes. Quill Tree, $19.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-299835-4
Following his father’s death, Black middle schooler Zane’s mother must take in several boarders—“all of them old, smelling of Vicks VapoRub and mothballs”—to afford their Queens home. But the bills still pile up despite the extra income, and Zane...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown, $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-316-29933-6
Black 12-year-old Will sets out with his mule Belle and his sharecropper father to claim land in this riveting historical saga by Rhodes (Treasure Island), set during the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush. Desperate to escape his boring life and experience...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams, illus. by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu. Little, Brown, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-56271-3
Mother-daughter team Rhodes and McWilliams feature a mother-daughter duo in this energetic picture book rooted in the history of step. “Where me and Mama live, not many people look like us. Sometimes that makes Mama sad as can be,” begins the young...
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