Forever this summer [Love Like Sky]by Youngblood, Leslie C. 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2022)

BTSB #: 975774 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG F&P: X

Genres:

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Louisiana - Fiction Louisiana - Fiction

Summary: When eleven-year-old Georgie and her sister Peaches relocate to Bogalusa, Louisiana, with their mother to help their Great Aunt Vie, Georgie becomes involved in the search for the truth about her new friend Markie's mother.

Forever this summer by Youngblood, Leslie C. 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2021)

BTSB #: 975776 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG F&P: X

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Louisiana - Fiction Louisiana - Fiction

Summary: When eleven-year-old Georgie and her sister Peaches relocate to Bogalusa, Louisiana, with their mother to help their Great Aunt Vie, Georgie becomes involved in the search for the truth about her new friend Markie's mother.

Mardi Gras almost didn't come this year by Price, Kathy 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 731799 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 720 AD

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Loss (Psychology) - Fiction Family life - Louisiana - Fiction Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Fiction Mardi Gras - Fiction Louisiana - Fiction

Summary: Lala, Babyboy, and their parents struggle to cope with the loss of their home to Hurricane Katrina, but find joy again in the celebration of Mardi Gras.

Rules for disappearing by Elston, Ashley 

Paperback(Hyperion, 2014)

BTSB #: 308164 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   
AR: 4.2 UG RC: 4.5 9-12

Genres:

Subjects: Witness protection programs - Fiction Moving - Fiction Family life - Louisiana - Fiction Friendship - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Natchitoches (La.) - Fiction

Summary: High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends--but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult.

Upside down in the middle of nowhere by Lamana, Julie T. 

Paperback(Chronicle Books, 2014)

BTSB #: 538289 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.7 MG RC: 4.6 6-8

Genres:

Subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Louisiana - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction New Orleans (La.) - Fiction

Summary: At the end of August 2005, ten-year-old Armani is looking forward to her birthday party in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she and her extended family live, but Hurricane Katrina is on the way, bringing destruction and tragedy in its wake.