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1) Chicken joy on Redbean Road: a bayou country romp

Author

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

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When a case of chicken measles steals the voice of the blue-headed rooster who used to crow all day long, his friend, a plain brown hen, brings musicians to remind him to sing and save him from becoming "quiet rooster stew."

2) Epossumondas plays possum

Author

Salley, Coleen

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

Description

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Forgetting his mother's warnings, Epossumondas goes into the swamp alone then must pretend to be dead time and again as he hears frightening sounds and fears they are being made by the dreaded loup garou.

3) Buster and the great swamp

Author

Brown, Marc Tolon

Series

Passport to reading. Level 2

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

2005.

Language

English

Description

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When his father takes him to visit the Louisiana bayou, Buster sends postcards to his friends back home telling them about the Cajun language, learning to catch crabs, and keeping watch for a swamp monster.

4) The mystery of Alligator Swamp

Author

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Series

Boxcar children special volume 19

Publisher

A. Whitman

Pub. Date

2002.

Language

English

Description

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The Aldens head to Louisiana and help investigate a mystery involving a legendary alligator.

5) Lu and the swamp ghost

Author

Carville, James

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

Description

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During the Depression in the Louisiana bayou, a curious young girl helps the "Swamp Ghost" that her cousins warned her about and finds herself with one good friend.

6) The legend of Papa Noël: a Cajun Christmas story

Author

Dunham, Terri Hoover

Publisher

Sleeping Bear

Pub. Date

c2006.

Language

English

Description

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This Cajun version of Santa's Christmas Eve deliveries tells of Papa Noël living in a Louisiana swamp and bringing gifts in a boat pulled by alligators along the Mississippi River.

7) Epossumondas saves the day

Author

Salley, Coleen

Publisher

Harcourt

Pub. Date

c2006.

Language

English

Description

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In this variation on the folktale, Sody Salyraytus, each of Epossumondas's birthday guests disappears until it is finally up to him to rescue them all and bring home the "sody" for his birthday biscuits.

8) Trosclair and the alligator

Author

Huggins, Peter

Publisher

Star Bright

Pub. Date

c2006.

Language

English

Description

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Trosclair ignores his father's warning about Gargantua, the rogue alligator living in nearby Bayou Fontaine, and heads off into Bee Island Swamp to hunt for turtle eggs.

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1) Chicken joy on Redbean Road: a bayou country romp

2) Epossumondas plays possum

3) Buster and the great swamp

4) The mystery of Alligator Swamp

5) Lu and the swamp ghost

6) The legend of Papa Noël: a Cajun Christmas story

7) Epossumondas saves the day

8) Trosclair and the alligator

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