Jewell Parker Rhodes
1) Bayou Magic
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids– plus an environmental twist.
It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings– the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see....
It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings– the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see....
2) Ghost Boys
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.
Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.
Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what...
Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.
Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks in a classroom of students who cannot remember the event but live through the aftermath of its cultural shift.
When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window, Dèja can't help but feel confused....
When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window, Dèja can't help but feel confused....
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of survival in the face of Hurricane Katrina.
Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving caretaker, wise in...
Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving caretaker, wise in...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Suspended unjustly from elite Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies fencing with a former champion, hoping to put the racist fencing team captain in his place.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson in this thrilling adventure set in modern-day Manhattan, in which three children must navigate the city's hidden history, dodge a threatening crew of skater kids, and decide who they can really trust in order to hunt down a long-buried treasure.
Three kids. One dog. And the island of Manhattan,
...7) Sugar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English