Book Club Guide: Paradise on Fire
Book Club Guide: Paradise on Fire
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New York Times review of Paradise on Fire
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How the Paradise fire, Northridge earthquake and Hurricane Katrina inform this author’s work
In “Paradise on Fire,” an East Coast kid named Addy is spending the summer learning about nature out West. She’s in all-new terrain, but her natural ability to make and understand maps comes in handy when faced with one of the region’s greatest threats, a forest fire.
New Jewell Parker Rhodes Novel Inspired By Arizona Wildfires, Nature
The past few years have seen some of the biggest wildfires in Arizona history, and other states across the West have also been dealing with increasing wildfire activity.
It is in that context that author Jewell Parker Rhodes sets her newest young adult novel, “Paradise on Fire.” It tells the story of six kids who have little experience in nature, trying to survive a raging wildfire.
Author explains impact of 9/11 on kids in book ‘Towers Falling
For those who lived through it, September 11th, 2001 will always carry deep emotional impact. But for a whole other generation, they only know what they’ve read or been told. Jewell Parker Rhodes wanted to help push the conversation along with her book ‘Towers Falling’ which focuses on a group of 5th graders trying to fully understand what that day meant for the country.
Jewell Parker Rhodes and Towers Falling featured on CBS Sunday Morning: The Unfolding Meaning of 9/11
Young adult author Jewell Parker Rhodes said, “One of the things that I discovered is that a lot of adults were still so traumatized, are still so traumatized, by 9/11 that they don’t want to talk about it. So, in fact, when I was writing ‘Towers Falling,’ it was a very hard journey.”
Rhodes sees herself among the writers and educators finally beginning to grapple with 9/11. “If you look at 9/11 literature, we’re building a canon that you can start in elementary and all the way up, move to more increasingly complicated, well-told stories about the legacy of 9/11 and the time that we spent in Afghanistan,” she said.
Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures Acquires Jewell Parker Rhodes Novel ‘Ghost Boys’
EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired global rights to Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes’ 2018 novel for young readers that weaves genres to explore what happens after a Black child is killed by a white police officer.
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