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1) Bayou magic
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Visiting her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that she may be the only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Larissa Renaud starts receiving eerie phone calls on a disconnected phone in her family's shop, Bayou Bridge Antiques, she finds herself directed to the river bank near her house, where a cloud of fireflies take her on a journey through time to learn the secrets of her family's past--and save their future.
Author
Series
Wildseed witch volume 1
Language
English
Description
"While the other girls have always known they were destined to be witches, Hasani is a Wildseed---a stray witch from a family of non-witches, with no background knowledge, no way to control her magic, and a lot to catch up on. 'Wildseed' may be an insult that the other girls throw at her, but Wildseeds are more powerful than they know. And Hasani will learn that there are ways to use magic and thrive that can never be taught in a classroom"--
7) Zombie kid
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Monster-obsessed friends Nick, Carter, and Angelo are in for a hilariously grim adventure when an amulet that turns Nick into a zombie leads them on a quest to defeat the Zombie King himself"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jillian Robichaux's coastal Louisiana town of Boutin suffers a catastrophic flood that might be too much for her community to overcome, but she is determined to keep both Boutin and its indomitable spirit alive.
9) Buddy
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Li'l T and his family face great losses caused by Hurricane Katrina, including leaving Buddy, their very special, three-legged dog, behind when they must evacuate.
10) Bow wow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bowser the mutt lives with eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother in the normally quiet Louisiana bayou town of St. Roch, but news that a Bull shark has somehow made its way into the swamp has everyone excited, and the cash bounty for landing the shark has lured some very shady characters into town--one hunter in particular is prepared to go to any lengths to collect the money.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old haunt huntress apprentice Evangeline Clement spends her days and nights studying the ways of folk magic, honing her monster-hunting skills while pursuing local bayou banshees and Johnny revenants. With her animal familiar sure to make itself known any day now, the only thing left to do is prove to the council she has heart. Then she will finally be declared a true haunt huntress, worthy of following in the footsteps of her long line...
Author
Series
Little house. The Rose years volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
When Rose moves to Louisiana to live with her Aunt Eliza Jane and finish high school, she is exposed to new cultures, politics and ways of life.
13) The haunting
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Tara Doucet is grieving for her grandmother, and her family is falling apart around her, but it seems like her grandmother has preplanned an elaborate itinerary for her to follow which will lead her and her sister Riley from Louisiana to a South Pacific island and into danger--and everywhere she turns butterflies follow.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Birdie Gaux's dog, Bowser, considers himself in charge of security at 19 Gentilly Lane, so when the house is broken into Bowser wants to find the man with the limeade aftershave (and the cat) responsible--but nobody seems to know what the culprits were looking for, or why a strange girl is asking questions about Birdie's father, a policeman who was killed in the line of duty years before Bowser was adopted.
16) Sugar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
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