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Jewell Parker Rhodes

Autor/a de Ghost Boys

21+ obres 5,262 Membres 380 Ressenyes 1 preferits

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Jewell Parker Rhodes is an award-winning author. Her books include Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass' Women, Season, Moon, Hurricane, and the children's book, Ninth Ward. She is also the author of the writing guides Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American mostra'n més Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction. Her work has been published in Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and reproduced in audio and for NPR's "Selected Shorts." Rhodes honors include: the American Book Award, the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Outstanding Writing, and two Arizona Book Awards. Rhodes is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and Artistic Director of Piper Global Engagement at Arizona State University. (Bowker Author Biography) Jewell Parker Rhodes is a professor of creative writing and American literature at Arizona State University. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. mostra'n menys
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Obres de Jewell Parker Rhodes

Ghost Boys (2018) 1,098 exemplars
Ninth Ward (2010) 1,032 exemplars
Towers Falling (2016) 768 exemplars
Sugar (2013) 747 exemplars
Black Brother, Black Brother (2020) 377 exemplars
Bayou Magic (2015) 302 exemplars
Douglass' Women : A Novel (2002) 151 exemplars
Voodoo Season (2005) 111 exemplars
Paradise on Fire (2021) 98 exemplars
Magic City (1997) 89 exemplars
Yellow Moon: A Novel (2008) 68 exemplars
Hurricane: A Novel (2011) 31 exemplars

Obres associades

Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing (2002) — Col·laborador — 125 exemplars
The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection (2018) — Col·laborador — 97 exemplars
Proverbs for the People: Contemporary African-American Fiction (2003) — Pròleg, algunes edicions36 exemplars
Love Can Be: A Literary Collection about Our Animals (2018) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars

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Read this book for a class, and I could talk for an hour or more about this book and all it has to say. It made me feel so many feelings and it's definitely a heavy one that doesn't tread lightly and isn't afraid to discuss heavy-hitting topics.
 
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NovaQueen27 | Hi ha 67 ressenyes més | Jan 11, 2024 |
I really got into this story, probably because I didn't know very much about the experience of being in the Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina. I was fascinated by the timeline--the area flooded slowly in the days after the hurricane hit, and then people were stranded for days with no rescue. My colleagues have criticized the ending for being too vague because the story doesn't come to a satisfying conclusion (we're left wondering what is going to happen to Lanesha). But I thought it was still a very powerful little book that kept me totally enthralled. Beautifully written, with wonderful characters and a bit of a history lesson.… (més)
 
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LibrarianDest | Hi ha 56 ressenyes més | Jan 3, 2024 |
Independent Reading Level - 4th and 5th Grades
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aedrawdy | Hi ha 31 ressenyes més | Dec 7, 2023 |
Independent Reading Level: 4-6 grades

Awards: Golden Sower Award Nominee.
Louisiana Young Readers Choice List.
Nerdies: Middle-Grade Fiction Winner.
 
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RChilds00 | Hi ha 31 ressenyes més | Dec 6, 2023 |

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Obres
21
També de
5
Membres
5,262
Popularitat
#4,742
Valoració
4.1
Ressenyes
380
ISBN
203
Llengües
3
Preferit
1

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