A review by heat_her
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

4.0

Ashley (my 11-year-old daughter) and I read this together, and we both loved it. Ninth Ward is a wonderful, magical story about the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina, written from the perspective of 12-year-old Lanesha, a girl who lives in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans with her eccentric and lovable caretaker, Mama Ya-Ya. Because it’s written for children, it doesn’t go into the horrific particulars of the aftermath of the storm, but it gave Ashley a good idea of what it must have been like for kids her age to experience something like that. Ashley was too young in 2005 to have any real knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the hurricane, but Ninth Ward gave her enough information to ask questions about the finer details. Needless to say, we had a long conversation after finishing the book.

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