Ninth Ward

Title:

Ninth Ward

Personal Author EPSB:

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.

Other Title:

9th ward

Year Published:

2012

Physical Description:

217 p. ; 20 cm.

Awards:

Coretta Scott King Award, 2011

Subject:

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.

Spirits -- Fiction.

Coming of age -- Fiction.

Survival -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction.

Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Geographic Term:

New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.

New Orleans (La.) -- Juvenile fiction.

Genre:

Bildungsromans.

ISBN:

9780316043083

9780545489553

Publisher:

New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2012.

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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.