Jewell Parker Rhodes
All Books By Jewell Parker Rhodes
Bayou Magic
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 12, 2015
- Language: English
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3.99(1080 ratings)
It’s Maddy’s turn to have a bayou summer. At first she misses life back home in the city, but soon she grows to love everything about her new surroundings — the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only Maddy sees. Could it be a mermaid? As her grandmother shares wisdom about sayings and signs, Maddy realizes she may be only the sibling to carry on her family’s magical legacy. And when a disastrous oil leak threatens the bayou, she knows she may also be the only one who can help. Does she have what it takes to be a hero? A coming-of-age tale rich with folk magic, set in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, “Bayou Magic “celebrates hope, friendship, and family, and captures the wonder of life in the Deep South.
... Read moreBlack Brother, Black Brother
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Barrie Buckner
- Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 03, 2020
- Language: English
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4.21(5922 ratings)
From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition.
Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don’t look like him. They don’t like him either. Dubbing him “Black Brother,” Donte’s teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey.
When he’s bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, “King” Alan, he’s suspended from school and arrested for something he didn’t do.
Terrified, searching for a place where he belongs, Donte joins a local youth center and meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones. With Arden’s help, he begins training as a competitive fencer, setting his sights on taking down the fencing team captain, no matter what.
As Donte hones his fencing skills and grows closer to achieving his goal, he learns the fight for justice is far from over. Now Donte must confront his bullies, racism, and the corrupt systems of power that led to his arrest.
Powerful and emotionally gripping, Black Brother, Black Brother is a careful examination of the school-to-prison pipeline and follows one boy’s fight against racism and his empowering path to finding his voice.
Douglass’ Women
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 03, 2009
- Language: English
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4.08(501 ratings)
The best-selling author of Voodoo Dreams (F0036) focuses on two women who loved the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Anna, a free woman of color, was his rescuer, his loving wife and mother to his children. Ottilie Assing, a white German woman, became his intellectual soul mate and mistress. At times, they all lived under the same roof.
... Read moreGhost Boys
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Miles Harvey
- Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 17, 2018
- Language: English
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4.37(23247 ratings)
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 they see as an unjust and brutal killing.
Soon Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till, a boy from a very different time but similar circumstances. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life. Jerome also meets Sarah, the daughter of the police officer, who grapples with her father’s actions.
Once again Jewell Parker Rhodes deftly weaves historical and socio-political layers into a gripping and poignant story about how children and families face the complexities of today’s world, and how one boy grows to understand American blackness in the aftermath of his own death.
... Read moreHurricane
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 26, 2011
- Language: English
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3.91(133 ratings)
American Book Award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes crafts this atmospheric thriller, the third in her Voodoo trilogy after Voodoo Season and the “hypnotic” (Publishers Weekly) Yellow Moon. Working in the ER, Dr. Marie Lavant sees the darkest side of New Orleans. But the bloody wounds of patients are not the only things that haunt her. As the descendent of a legendary voodoo queen, Marie is cursed with the ability to communicate with spirits of the dead.
... Read moreMagic City
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 16, 2009
- Language: English
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4.07(271 ratings)
Hailed as a Favorite Book by the Chicago Tribune and based on true events, Magic City wowed critics and audiences nationwide. In 1921 Tulsa, a white woman and a black man get on an elevator. The woman screams and suddenly the man is on the streets-barely ahead of a lynch mob gathering behind him. Accused of rape, aspiring magician Joe is on the run for a crime he didn’t commit-and the woman who’s scream implicated Joe must search for the courage to exonerate him.
... Read moreNinth Ward
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 18, 2010
- Language: English
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4.01(5950 ratings)
Acclaimed novelist Jewell Parker Rhodes is an American Book Award winner. Rhodes’ Ninth Ward is a stunning tale set against the horrors of Hurricane Katrina. Orphaned 12-year-old Lanesha lives with Mama Ya-Ya, the midwife who birthed her, in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Although Lanesha is different-able to see ghosts like that of her dead mother-she never feels unloved, an empowerment that helps her survive the devastating storm. “If there are awards for books that celebrate the triumph of the human spirit, this one is a clear contender.”-Children’s Literature
... Read moreParadise on Fire
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Tyla Collier
- Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 14, 2021
- Language: English
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3.8(891 ratings)
From award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age survival tale exploring issues of race, class, and climate change
Addy is haunted by the tragic fire that killed her parents, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. Now, years later, Addy’s grandmother has enrolled her in a summer wilderness program. There, Addy joins five other Black city kids–each with their own troubles–to spend a summer out west.
Deep in the forest the kids learn new (and to them) strange skills: camping, hiking, rock climbing, and how to start and safely put out campfires. Most important, they learn to depend upon each other for companionship and survival.
But then comes a devastating forest fire…
Addy is face-to-face with her destiny and haunting past. Developing her courage and resiliency against the raging fire, it’s up to Addy to lead her friends to safety. Not all are saved. But remembering her origins and grandmother’s teachings, she’s able to use street smarts, wilderness skills, and her spiritual intuition to survive.
Towers Falling
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 12, 2016
- Language: English
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4.05(9510 ratings)
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, Deja can’t help but feel confused. She sets off on a journey of discovery, with new friends Ben and Sabeen by her side. But just as she gets closer to answering big questions about who she is, what America means, and how communities can grow (and heal), she uncovers new questions, too. Like, why does Pop get so angry when she brings up anything about the towers?
Award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes tells a powerful story about young people who weren’t alive to witness this defining moment in history, but begin to realize how much it colors their every day.
Voodoo Dreams
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Length: 20 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 15, 2010
- Language: English
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3.79(1003 ratings)
Spanning six decades of the 1800s, this mesmerizing story is a fictional biography of Marie Laveau–one of the most haunting characters in New Orleans’ history. Part of a long line of voodoo priestesses and healers, Marie tells of the mystery, passion, and violence that pattern her life. Like her grandmother, Marie sees visions from an early age. She never knew her mother, who practiced a spiritualism so potent she was murdered by those who feared her. When Marie becomes a healer, she discovers a supernatural force that can channel the power of her ancestors. But it is a ferocious force driven by both life and death. Author Jewell Parker Rhodes has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts and is a professor of American literature and creative writing at Arizona State University.
... Read moreVoodoo Season
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 10, 2008
- Language: English
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3.6(505 ratings)
Jewell Parker Rhodes follows up her acclaimed Voodoo Dreams with a present-day mystery surrounding the gifts of an ancestor of the Voodoo Queen. Doctor Marie Levant can’t explain why she’s drawn to New Orleans, why it’s comforting and unsettling at the same time. And she can’t shake her haunting dreams. But when she delivers a dead woman’s baby, Marie knows malevolent forces are at work-and it’s up to her to stop them. “Nonbelievers along with the initiated will be riveted throughout.”-Publishers Weekly
... Read moreYellow Moon
- By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrator: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 15, 2010
- Language: English
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3.73(19 ratings)
The second novel in Jewell Parker Rhodes’ acclaimed Voodoo series, Yellow Moon finds New Orleans’ preeminent voodoo practitioner hunting an African vampire -a wazimamoto. Marie Levant is tired of seeing corpses drained of blood arrive at the hospital each night, and tired of being haunted by their ghosts. It’ll take all her skills to expel the deadly spirit in this “satisfying and eerie story that lies somewhere between the work of Anne Rice and James Lee Burke” (Kirkus).
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