Louisiana+Titles

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= Louisiana Titles =

Picture Books

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 * //**Jacques and de Beanstalk**// by Mike Artell || Young Jacques trades his old cow for some magic beans. When he climbs the beanstalk, he meets a terrible giant who roars, "I smell some cayenne so dat means a Cajun's around here somewhere." Great fun with a Cajun twist. ||
 * //**Three Little Cajun Pigs**// by Mike Artell || The three little pigs (Trosclair, Thibodeaux and Boo) have to build their own houses. Things don't go well until they all end up hiding from Claude the alligator at Boo's house. Fortunately, Boo is cooking a roux and ...well...you'll have to read the story to find out what happens. ||
 * **// Petite Rouge - A Cajun Red Riding Hood //** by Mike Artell || Petite Rouge was named 2009 Read Aloud Book of the Year by the National Association of Elementary School Principals and was the 2004 Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award winner. It's also become a musical theatre production that has been staged across the US and in London, England. A classic! ||
 * //**The Twelve Days of Christmas in Louisiana**// by Jean Cassels || Welcome to the 12 days of Christmas in Louisiana! Ready to greet you are 11 bees a-buzzing, 10 frogs a-leapin, 9 Cajun crawfish... and much more from the Pelican State. ||
 * //**Today is Monday in Louisiana**// by Johnette Downing and Deborah Kadair || A variation of a Louisiana song with a twist–each day a new food is served. ||
 * //**Down in Louisiana**// by Johnette Downing || Based on a traditional song. This counting book tells of pelicans, armadillos, black bears, alligators, Catahoulas, nutria, possums, crawfish, and mosquitoes and their kin. Set in the Louisiana bayous, marshes, and wetlands, the rhythmic text offers children a tour of the Pelican State's diverse and unique natural environment. ||
 * //**Why the Crawfish Lives in the Mud**// by Johnette Downing || Long ago, the Crab and the Crawfish used to be best friends. But one sweltering day, Crawfish is feeling lazy and decides to take advantage of Crab's generosity. ||
 * //**Gator Gumbo**// by Candace Fleming || A new take on //The Little Red Hen// -- Cajun style! Poor Monsieur Gator is getting old and is moving so slow he can't catch himself a taste of possum or otter, or even a whiff of skunk. Day after day those animals tease and taunt him until, finally, he decides to cook up some gumbo just like Maman used to make. But who will help him boil, catch, sprinkle, and chop? Illustrated with wit and whimsy, this mischievous tale will have young readers laughing out loud. ||
 * //**There Was An Ol' Cajun**// by Deborah Kadair || In this inventive retelling of There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly, an old Cajun accidentally swallows a gnat. ||
 * //**Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival**// by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery || A tale of true friendship and home for two animals left behind during Katrina. ||
 * // **P is for Pelican: A Louisiana Alphabet** // by Anitra Prieto and Laura Knorr || From its festive Mardi Gras parades to its wildlife-filled swamps, Louisiana is a state of great diversity. "P is for Pelican: A Louisiana Alphabet" is an alphabet book that introduces readers young and old to the culture, history, and wonders of this Gulf state. ||
 * //**Little Pierre A Cajun Story form Louisiana**// by Robert San Souci || A rollicking, Cajun-spiced Tom THumb tale straight fromthe Louisiana Bayou! Little Pierre may be small, but he's got more marbles rolling round in his itty-bitty noggin than his four big, lazy brothers heaped together. Yet they just call him runt and ignore him. Course, when the good-for-nothing brothers flub their attempt to rescue a damsel in distress from the Swamp Ogre, it falls on Little Pierre to rescue //them//. Will this half-pint hero find out that his brothers were right all along--brains don't beat brawn? ||

Young Adult
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 * //**My Louisiana Sky**// by Kimberly Willis Holt || Tiger Ann Parker wants nothing more than to get out of the rural town of Saitter, Louisiana—far away from her mentally disabled mother, her “slow” father, and her classmates who tease her relentlessly. When her grandmother dies, Aunt Dorie Kay asks Tiger to live with her in Baton Rouge. Tiger finally has a way out; she can’t wait to go. But she’s finding that leaving her parents and the only home she’s ever known—changing her entire life—isn’t going to be that easy. ||
 * //**Alligator Bayou**// by Donna Jo Napoli || UG - An unforgettable novel, based on a true story, about racism against Italian Americans in the South in 1899. Fourteen-year-old Calogero, his uncles, and his cousins are six Sicilians living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, miles from any of their countrymen. They grow vegetables and sell them at their stand and in their grocery store. Some people welcome the immigrants; most do not. Calogero's family is caught in the middle of tensions between the black and white communities. ||
 * //** Ninth Ward **// by Jewel Parker Rhodes || Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving caretaker, wise in the ways of the world and able to predict the future. So when Mama Ya-Ya's visions show a powerful hurricane--Katrina--fast approaching, it's up to Lanesha to call upon the hope and strength Mama Ya-Ya has given her to help them both survive the storm. ||