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1) Buddy
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Bowser and Birdie novels volume 2
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Language
English
Description
"[In this graphic novel adaptation,] Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the...
6) The Hideaway
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When her grandmother's will wrenches Sara back home from New Orleans, she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever did in life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags's ramshackle B & B in Sweet Bay, Alabama. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Crystal Springs, Louisiana, when sixteen-year-old James finds his mother lying in her bed, dead, he tries to run the household by himself, hiding his mother's death from the authorities, caring for his little brother, and scrounging for food until things become increasingly desperate.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
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
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Fiddle fever
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
x, 166 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1914, fourteen-year-old Felix LeBlanc feels stifled by life on his family's farm in Louisiana and after hearing his wayward uncle play the fiddle, Felix decides that he wants to be a fiddler too, even if it means making his own fiddle and going against his parents' wishes.
16) 10 blind dates
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sophie wants one thing for Christmas-- a little freedom from her overprotective parents. So when they decide to spend Christmas in South Louisiana with her very pregnant older sister, Sophie is looking forward to some much needed private (read: make-out) time with her long-term boyfriend, Griffin. Except it turns out that Griffin wants a little freedom from their relationship. Cue devastation. Heartbroken, Sophie flees to her grandparents' house,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old tomboy Livie is sure that she is responsible for the accident that has put her mother into a coma, so, trying to make amends, she travels through the Louisiana swamps to get a spell that will make her mother well again.
18) The lying woods
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Owen Foster is pulled from his elite New Orleans boarding school when his father's assets are seized and, back in his small town, begins to piece together his father's past despite mounting danger.
Author
Series
Ya-Yas volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
SiddaLee has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers mementos from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood.
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