Tennyson
After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, eleven-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
Out Of The Easy
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: conduct of life, prostitution, murder, mothers and daughters, new orleans (la.) [X], mother-daughter relationship [X], homicide
Pieces Of Why
Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: gospel singers, choirs, neuroses, father-daughter relationship, mother-daughter relationship [X], new orleans (la.) [X], traumatic neuroses, choirs (music), realistic fiction, children's choirs, children of prisoners, fathers and daughters, mothers and daughters
Drowning Is Inevitable
After seventeen-year-old Olivia and her friend Jamie accidentally kill Jamie's abusive father, two other friends, Max and Maggie, join them in running away from St.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, juvenile fiction / social issues / runaways, juvenile fiction / social issues / death & dying, murder, runaway teenagers, best friends, friendship, homicide, mother-daughter relationship [X], father-son relationship, new orleans (la.) [X]