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1) Sugar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
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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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In 1860 Louisiana, eighty-year-old Madame Sylvie decides to sit for a portrait, as horrific stories that span generations from the big house and the fields are revealed.
1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her family's indifference, to sit for a portrait. It will be a testament to all the hardships she overcame, the glory her life ought to have been....
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Bowser and Birdie novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grief transform his family. It would be easier if King could talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. But just days before he died,...
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Love like sky volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
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Piper Reed volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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After bidding goodbye to her friends Michael and Nicole, who are moving away, Piper and her sisters spend winter break with their two sets of grandparents in Piney Woods, Louisiana, where Piper learns that the best adventures are the unexpected ones.
11) Alligator bayou
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
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Bowser and Birdie novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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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.
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Bowser and Birdie novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment--learning the art of letter writing. Luckily, Tate has the perfect pen pal in mind: Hank Williams, a country music singer whose star has just begun to rise. Tate and her great aunt and uncle listen to him on the radio every Saturday night, and Tate just knows that she and Hank are kindred spirits.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
16) Boys Like You
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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When Monroe Blackwell, who is spending the summer at her grandmother's Louisiana bed-and-breakfast, meets Nathan Everets, who has a court-appointed job there, they share, and begin to recover from, their respective feelings of loss and guilt.
18) The dolls
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Dolls series (Kiki Sullivan) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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"Eveny Cheval returns to Louisiana after growing up in New York and discovers she's a voodoo queen"--
19) Beware the wild
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Beware the wild volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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A teenaged girl and her boyfriend must find her older brother after he wanders into their town's swamp and a mysterious girl appears in his place.
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Epossumondas volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
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Forgetting his mother's warnings, Epossumondas goes into the swamp alone then must pretend to be dead time and again as he hears frightening sounds and fears they are being made by the dreaded loup garou.
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