Bayou magic by Rhodes, Jewell Parker 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2015)

BTSB #: P02986 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Family Life Supernatural

Subjects: Bayous - Fiction Magic - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Louisiana - Fiction

Summary: Visiting her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that she may be "the one," the only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.

Forever this summer by Youngblood, Leslie C. 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2021)

BTSB #: 975776 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
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.

King and the dragonflies by Callender, Kacen 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 183918 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 5.4 6-8 Lexile: 830 F&P: Y

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Brothers - Fiction Hate crimes - Fiction Dragonflies - Fiction Grief - Fiction Louisiana - Fiction

Summary: In a small Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself.

Summer of stolen secrets by Sternberg, Julie 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2021)

BTSB #: 851217 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Family Life Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Summer - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Secrets - Fiction Louisiana - Fiction

Summary: Catarina has never met her strict Jewish grandmother. But now, with an opportunity to spend three weeks in Baton Rouge, Cat packs her bags and leaves New York City to get to know the woman who has always been a mystery. Down South, she begins working at her grandmother's luxury department store with her rebellious cousin Lexie. Nothing seems to be going right and nobody talks about the past. Then Cat stumbles onto a secret from a time her grandmother refuses to speak of.

Swamp : Louisiana, 1851 [Survivors (Aladdin)]by Duey, Kathleen 

BTSB Prebound(Aladdin, 2016)

BTSB #: 293501 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.2 MG Lexile: 750

Genres: Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Bayous - Fiction Lost children - Fiction People with physical disabilities - Fiction Cajuns - Fiction Louisiana - Fiction

Summary: No one in Lily LeGrand's Cajun community is willing to help search for Paul Courville, who is missing in the bayou along with his mean-spirited older brothers, William and Mark. Why should they? Paul's wealthy plantation-owner father has made no secret of his disdain for Cajuns.

Time of the fireflies by Little, Kimberley Griffiths 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 580059 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
RC: 4.4 3-5 Lexile: 720

Genres: Science Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Secrets - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Family life - Fiction Time travel - Fiction Fireflies - Fiction Louisiana - Fiction

Summary: 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.

Woof : a Bowser and Birdie novel by Quinn, Spencer 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2015)

BTSB #: P03072 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Mystery Fiction Animals

Subjects: Mystery fiction Dogs - Fiction Theft - Fiction Bayous - Fiction Louisiana - Fiction

Summary: Bowser is a mutt, just adopted by eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother, but when they all get home to Grammy's bait and tackle shop in the bayou they discover that their prize stuffed marlin has been stolen--so Bowser decides to investigate, and things quickly become complicated and dangerous.