A review by tcbueti
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

3.0

I'd thought I should read this since it got such glowing reviews and won the Coretta Scott King award; I finally got around to it. I liked the quiet resiliency and determination of Lanesha, the main character--an orphan being raised by the elderly midwife who assisted at her birth--and the description of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding afterwards were vivid and suspenseful.
This might be appealing for kids who want to read a not-scary ghost story or about survival of a natural disaster. The mixture of the two is unusual. Ok, it's odd. Actually, the best thing I can say about this is…it's short.