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| Minutes() * 60 + newCurrentTime.Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.Are You an Author or Publisher?Ships from and sold by Amazon.Want it delivered Monday, January 14?Day Shipping at checkout.This story offers a smooth blend of historical fact, suspense, and magic.When Hurricane Camille slams into the Gulf Coast just as a white boy holds her and her family at gunpoint, Ruba musters her spiritual and emotional powers to save their lives and realizes that her training and perspective can be adapted to any time, situation, and place.Ruba's vivid descriptions and her reflective observations and lyrical letters to Ba belie early admission that she is learning and practicing English.Ruba's tumultuous battle with the mystical stormwitch is compelling and liberating.Like her Mississippi cousins, readers will find Ruba an intriguing adolescent mix of cultural pride, emotional insecurity, and stubborn determination.Ruba moves from Haiti to coastal Mississippi, where her other grandmother lives.Ba trained Ruba in the fierce, powerful ways of their descendants, the Amazon warrior women from Africa's Dahomey, but Grandmother Jones thinks Ruba's spells, conjuring, and dances are "Satan's Tools."Against her grandmother's protests, Ruba struggles to use her Amazonian powers to fight racist Klansmen and even a hurricane powered by a ruthless spirit.Still, the details are fascinating.Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?In fact, when I tried to explain it to my agent the first time, I couldn't figure out what genre would be the best fit.Young adult historical fantasy disaster adventure sounded a bit long.So, in Stormwitch, the facts and figures about Hurricane Camille are accurate based on all the historical documents I could find.Details about the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969 are also accurate, again based on research, my memory, and some interviews.Dealing with the flavor and feel of the Civil Rights Movement and differences between teenagers and adults during that time was much more difficult.Dittmer'sLocal People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi.Once I found the right research books for the Civil Rights aspects (can't always rely on my memory), I moved on to finding good sources about the fighting women of Dahomey.I'm happy to share that list with anyone who emails and asks for it, too.Hello and Thank You All!Thank you all for giving my work a chance.I'd love to hear from any of you.I'm not as diligent with my blog as I should be, but I'm reeeaaaallly trying to get better and post more frequently.My next book Witch Circle, the third and final in the L.Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet.Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?It's not often you find a gem of a book like STORMWITCH.It is a fabulous mixture of magic and historical fact.From the first time I picked this story up, it was a book that I could not put down.Was this review helpful to you?Strongly recommended for reluctant readers of middle grade age, sure to appeal to every reader who likes fantasy and a sense of historical time and place, this is a must for all school library shelves.See all 6 customer reviews...Linda Zielinski, Children's Picturebook Price Guide
Being from the South, this is a perfect book.Published 19 months ago by L.Ruba is wonderful, empowering character with great strength.Help me my fellow bookworms!Book from my childhood...Truly TERRIFYING or DISTURBING young adult books???StormwitchWinner of the 2006 Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award.Great Fantasy authors you have never heard of!Young Adult
Children: Young Adult (Gr.Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?Please note that we are unable to respond directly to all feedback submitted via this form, but we'll ask you to sign in so we can contact you if needed.Track your recent orders.View or change your orders in Your Account.Visit our Help department.You have no recently viewed items or searches.Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.Stormwitch were a German heavy metal band from the 1980s.The band's song lyrics often focused on fantasy, occult or historical themes, anticipating power metal along with their contemporaries and countrymen Helloween.They performed at Wacken Open Air festival in 2002.Additional Notes
Some of Stormwitch's songs have been covered by Hammerfall (Ravenlord) and White Skull (Tears By The Fire Light).The name was changed into Stormwitch in 1981.German heavy metal bands who were active at the time such as Restless, Tyran' Pace and Cacumen
Stormwitch was the first band to play Iron Maiden style heavy metal in Germany, and as such should be considered the father of German power metal.External links
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56,634 plays scrobbled on Last.Stormwitch is a band from Germany, and during the 80's they were one of the better known German cult bands.Only the vocalist remains in the band from the original 1984 lineup.Extensive musical taste meter...Stormwitch live 20 years ago and was very impressed.If you'd like to add some events for Stormwitch then you can do so on this page.We're conducting a survey and would like your input.Web Site Support
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