![]() ![]() Click here to watch Jewell Parker Rhodes' appearance at Al's Book Club. NINTH WARD has just been become the pick for Al's Book Club by The Today Show's Al Roker. ![]() To call upon the hope and strength Mama Ya-Ya has given her to helpĮmotional story about transformation and a celebration of resilience,įriendship, and family-as only love can define it. Show a powerful hurricane-Katrina-fast approaching, it's up to Lanesha The world and able to predict the future. Have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving caretaker, wise in the ways of Lots of friends like the other kids on her street. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' ![]() Join us when award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes returns to Octavia Books to read and sign NINTH WARD, a New Orleans-set novel which we highly recommend for young readers ages 10 and up. ![]()
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