"An enjoyable, satisfying novel about the magical spirit of a young girl navigating her way through an American tragedy."- Christopher Paul Curtis Jewell Parker Rhodes's book shines with love."- Sara Pennypacker "Lanesha is a miraculous candle of a girl: her flame burns steadier in hurricane winds, and glows brighter against dark flood-waters. Jewell's vivid writing brings the setting to life, in a story that is both timely and unforgettable."- Patricia Reilly Giff "An absolutely exquisite children's debut by Jewell Parker Rhodes. shows a kind of bravery and big-heartedness that is a gift she passes along to her friend, her community and the readers of this luminous book."- Walter Mosley "Jewell Parker Rhodes has written a powerful novel about family and survival in the face of tragedy and has created in her twelve-year-old narrator Lanesha, a true heroine. Thinking of my mother’s stuff being used by people who needed it somehow made both her death and their suffering very real to me.A CCBC Recommended Multicultural Book for Children and Teens I remember crying after delivering my last load to that truck a few hours before it left on its journey.
It went to churches down there to help people with clean up and re-establishing households.
Her house was in the small town of Louisiana, Missouri and a lot of her cleaning and cooking gear that we cleared out of the house that fall ended up on a truck called Louisiana helping Louisiana.
My grief for my mother and the people lost in New Orleans all kind of got tied up together.
My mother died in July 2005 and I remember while watching the news of Katrina in August and early September that I was oddly glad that she didn’t live to see it. On page 121: “I look around me - the kitchen is clean, quiet, and the refrigerator is filled with food and water.” Lanesha feels pride about getting everything ready for Katrina and that full refrigerator felt to me a symbol for her resilience and independence.Ģ. On page 110, Lanesha doesn’t smell the normal Sunday breakfast smells and we know she never will again in quite the same way - it’s a symbol of the change that is about to happen.
0 kommentar(er)
