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It is 1969, and Ruba has just moved to Mississippi from Haiti to live with her Grandmother Jones. This world is very different from her old life, where she spent days beachcombing with Ba, her maternal grandmother, and learning the lore of magic and history that she holds close. But magic isn't welcome in her new grandmother's house. Ruba struggles to understand her strange surroundings and the hate that comes at her from some of the white people in town. It isn't long before Ruba finds herself threatened by the KKK and drawn into the fight for civil rights. But a hurricane barreling toward the coast changes everything, bringing Ruba and her family a ...

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It is 1969, and Ruba has just moved to Mississippi from Haiti to live with her Grandmother Jones. This world is very different from her old life, where she spent days beachcombing with Ba, her maternal grandmother, and learning the lore of magic and history that she holds close. But magic isn't welcome in her new grandmother's house. Ruba struggles to understand her strange surroundings and the hate that comes at her from some of the white people in town. It isn't long before Ruba finds herself threatened by the KKK and drawn into the fight for civil rights. But a hurricane barreling toward the coast changes everything, bringing Ruba and her family a measure of justice and a new acceptance.

In Pass Christian, Mississippi in 1969, sixteen-year-old Ruba, trained by her Haitian grandmother in both voodoo and Amazonian warrior tactics, uses her skills to fight against racism and the African witch Zashar, now coming ashore in the form of Hurricane Camille.

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Haitian Ruba feels as though she has been swept up and deposited in a Mississippi life she cannot understand. Her father died in Vietnam and her mother died when Ruba was a small child, so the life of voodoo and Amazon warrior tactics that she had shared with her beloved grandmother, Ba, was all the sixteen-year-old girl had ever known. Now that Ba has died, Ruba has come to live with her other grandmother, Grandmother Jones. Grandmother Jones is an opinionated woman who wants Ruba to wear American-style clothes rather than her African dashikis, to look down when white people talk to her, and to join the church rather than practice her Haitian rituals. It is no surprise that the two strong-willed characters sometimes clash. In 1969 Mississippi, stakes are high for black folks. The activism—and brutality—of Freedom Summer was just a few years ago, and Grandmother Jones remembers the sometimes-fatal repercussions of too much strong defiance. It does not help matters that Ruba's different ways have caught the attention of Rayboy and his Ku Klux Klan wizard father. As if that is not enough, Ruba knows that a big storm is coming; what the forecasters call Hurricane Camille is on its way. Ruba knows that it is the embodiment of a deeper, growing evil that she must fight using all of her Amazonian and voodoo strengths. Tension builds steadily through Susan Vaught's gripping novel. Ruba's continued strength and determination in the face of these societal and environmental threats is engaging. A difficult book to put down, this might be a good choice for teachers who want to address themes of civil rights or cultural differences in the classroom. 2005, Bloomsbury, Ages 12 to 16.
—Heidi Hauser Green
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The death of Ruba Jones's grandmother in 1969 sends her from her beloved Haiti to the small, racially volatile town of Pass Christian, Mississippi. Church-going Grandmother Jones pressures Ruba to abandon her language, customs, and belief in spells and warrior spirits in order to fit into her new community. As Ruba's bold manner and refusal to submit to the rule of white men triggers a firestorm in Pass Christian, the Stormwitch causes a hurricane to head straight for town. The last in a line of Dahomey Amazons, Ruba knows that only her magic and strength will save her community from the mythic Stormwitch. Ruba teaches her people to have pride in themselves and in their history. She declares, "We first have to be loyal to each other and stand together against those who would use us and kill us . . . We have to remember what came before guns and steel. It wasn't perfect, but it was ours." Her conviction brings her family to a better understanding of their history and leads a young Klansman to a realization of their shared humanity. Although this book gives the reader insight into the waning days of the civil rights movement, the realistic and fantastic elements often fail to mesh effectively, and the final confrontation between Ruba and the Stormwitch is anticlimactic, almost absurd. This book may have some appeal for a general audience, but its mix of elements will reduce its appeal as fantasy or historical fiction. VOYA CODES: 3Q 3P J (Readable without serious defects; Will appeal with pushing; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9). 2004, Bloomsbury, 200p., Ages 12 to 15.
—Angela Semifero

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781582349527
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
  • Publication date: 1/3/2005
  • Pages: 200
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: 720L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 4.88 (w) x 8.52 (h) x 0.91 (d)

Meet the Author

Susan Vaught works with young people as a clinical psychologist. She has also been writing all her life. She and her large family live on a rugged, 45-acre mountainous farm in the Smoky Mountain foothills in Tennessee. This is her second book for young adults.

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  • Anonymous

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    Excellent reading

    I couldn't put this book down. I like the way this author writes. It is nice to read a good story that is not filled with vulgar words and junk. I also enjoyed her other book L.O.S.T., and look forward to the sequal. Keep up the great writting.

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