new orleans (la.)

"Seventeen-year-old Claire Kincaid, a descendant of Marie Leveau, is forced to embrace her voodoo heritage when mysterious strangers threaten to use an age-old curse to destroy her family and the boy she loves"--Provided by publisher.

Fourteen-year-old Derek Stone continues his quest to battle the dead and prove himself as the hero he is supposed to be.

For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

Provides information on the pre-Lenten festival of Mardi Gras, focusing on how it is celebrated in New Orleans.

In New Orleans in 1898, while her mother talks of saving to buy land and her father insists on the importance of an education, young Irish immigrant Maggie McCrary is determined to find her own way in the new place they call home.

Presents a history of Mardi Gras discussing the celebrations and traditions that are a part of the festival.

Analyzes Kate Chopin's novel "The Awakening" and includes biographical information, thematic and structural analysis, character lists, critical essays, and major themes and ideas.

During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.