Bayou magic by Rhodes, Jewell Parker 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2015)

BTSB #: 749446 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.1 MG RC: 2.4 3-5 Lexile: 410 F&P: V

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 only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.

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.

King and the dragonflies by Callender, Kacen 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 183918 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.9 MG 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.

Land of forgotten girls by Kelly, Erin Entrada 

BTSB Prebound(Greenwillow Books, 2016)

BTSB #: 512262 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 3.7 3-5 Lexile: 640

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Family problems - Fiction Immigrants - Louisiana - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Stepmothers - Fiction Filipino Americans - Fiction Louisiana - Fiction

Summary: Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.

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.