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Bayou Magic

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Maddy, a city girl, spends her first summer with Grandmere in Bon Temps Bayou. As she explores the landscape with a boy named Bear, she sees fireflies and a girl beneath the water. Grandmere believes Maddy may share her gift and tells her about their ancestor Membe, Mama Wata the water goddess, and a firefly sent to comfort Membe after she was captured and enslaved. Maddy can call fireflies, while an offshore oil-rig explosion threatens the bayou.

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Book details

Lexile Text Measure
410L
ATOS Book Level
2.8
Fountas & Pinnell Text Level
L
Themes
Environment · Family · Folklore And Mythology · Nature
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published
May 3, 2016
Pages
272
ISBN-13
9780316224857
Language
English
Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin–MadisonCCBC Choices
  • 2016Fiction for Children
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