Jewell Parker Rhodes

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1993
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Marie Laveau Mystery

1 - Voodoo Dreams (Oct-1993)
2 - Voodoo Season (Aug-2005)
3 - Yellow Moon (Aug-2008)
4 - Hurricane (Apr-2011)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • Voodoo Dreams

    A Marie Laveau Mystery - 1

    The story of Marie Laveau, the character featured on American Horror Story: Coven.

    New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century: a potent mix of whites, Creoles, free blacks, and African slaves, a city pulsing with crowds, commerce, and an unde...

  • Magic City

    "A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best." --  Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionWith a new Afterword from the author reflecting on the 100th anniversary of on...

  • Douglass' Women

    The critically acclaimed author of Voodoo Dreams delivers an inspired work of historical fiction about the warring passions that drove the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass and two women -- one black, one white -- who loved him.Douglass' Women re...

  • Proverbs for the People

    Featuring contributions from such noted writers as Pearl Cleage, Omar Tyree, Timmothy McCann, and Earl Sewell, a dramatically rendered anthology of stories, drawn from African, African-American, and biblical proverbs, is filled with an abundance of w...

  • Voodoo Season

    A Marie Laveau Mystery - 2

    Jewell Parker Rhodes, who has earned legions of fans with her masterful fiction, launched her career as an award-winning novelist with Voodoo Dreams, based on the legend of New Orleans's most famous voodoo priestess, Marie Laveau. Voodoo Season, ...

  • Porch Stories

    Award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction Jewell Parker Rhodes is a master of her craft, under-standing how both real and imagined stories can serve as a pathway to enlightenment. Porch Stories is Rhodes's tribute to her beloved grandmother, a r...

  • Yellow Moon

    A Marie Laveau Mystery - 3

    A jazzman, a wharf worker, a prostitute, all murdered. Wrists punctured, their bodies impossibly drained of blood. What connects them? Why are they rising as ghosts? Marie Levant, the great-great granddaughter of the Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, kn...

  • Ninth Ward

    Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving ...

  • Hurricane

    A Marie Laveau Mystery - 4

    Dr. Marie Levant aka Leveau, great-great granddaughter of Marie Laveau, has achieved fame and notoriety for saving New Orleans from the wrath of a vampire. Now she's taking a break from the city, heading up the highway to DeLaire. She doesn't know th...



  • Sugar

    Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack for finding her own fun, especially whe...

  • Bayou Magic

    A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids, plus an environmental twist. It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and s...

  • Towers Falling

    From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks. When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall tower...

  • Bayou Teche

    From the award winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a story of a Louisiana woman stuck in the wrong city with the wrong man. Mira longs to return to the bayou, to sit on her grandma's lap again and watch the fireflies dance through the air. But she r...

  • Long Distances

    From the award winning author Jewell Parker RhodesThree thousand miles. That's how far Nate has to drive to get to Los Angeles, to satisfy the dreams of his wife Della and find a new life for the two of them and their daughters. But cruising through ...

  • Ghost Boys

    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-yea...

  • Black Brother, Black Brother

    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 tra...

  • Paradise on Fire

    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 r...

  • Treasure Island

    Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson in this thrilling adventure set in modern-day Manhattan, in which three children must navigate the city’s hidden h...

  • Soul Step

    Follow one girl's journey to discover the joy and history of step dancing– an ode to sisterhood and a strong mother-daughter bond, perfect for fans of Bunheads.What does sisterhood sound like? STOMP, CLAP! How does pride move?...



  • Runaway Gold

    Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson in this thrilling adventure set in modern-day Manhattan, in which three children must navigate the city’s hidd...

  • Will

    â˜... "Rhodes deftly captures a unique ­aspect of this historical event, with a perspective that is ­often under-represented in historical ­fiction. A poignant and honest look at the trials of racism that defined the ­historic land rush; a m...

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Award-Winning Books by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Douglass' Women
2003 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award -- Fiction
Sugar
2014 Jane Addams Children's Book Award -- Books for Older Children


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jewell Parker Rhodes has published 22 books.

The next book by Jewell Parker Rhodes, Will, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Jewell Parker Rhodes, Voodoo Dreams, was published in October 1993.

Yes. Jewell Parker Rhodes has 1 series.
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