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STORMWITCH
by Susan Vaught
"...A powerful
story that's archetypical,
magical, and realistic all at once." -- Kirkus
It is 1969, and Ruba has moved to Mississippi from
Haiti to live with her Grandmother Jones. Her new world feels
strange and brutal, nothing like her old life of beachcombing
and learning the lore and magic of her heritage. Grandmother Jones
wants Ruba to go to church, quit using those French words, wear
starched white dresses, look down when white people talk to her,
and leave her ancestors' ways behind. If she doesn't obey, Ruba
faces stinging disapproval from her grandmother, not to mention
simmering hatred from some of the white people in town.
When the biggest hurricane in memory barrels toward the Mississippi
coast, that hatred rolls to a frantic boil. Ruba must use her
power, her common sense, and her strength of spirit to save herself
and her family from the angry boy threatening to take their lives--and
from the terrifying storm that might wash them all away first.
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