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Bayou magic

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Bayous > Juvenile fiction. Magic > Juvenile fiction. Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Louisiana > Juvenile fiction.
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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.
Physical Description:	239 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:	9780316224840 (hardcover) 0316224847 (hardcover)
Author Notes:	Jewell Parker Rhodes is an award-winning author. Her books include Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass' Women, Season, Moon, Hurricane, and the children's book, Ninth Ward. She is also the author of the writing guides Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction. Her work has been published in Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and reproduced in audio and for NPR's "Selected Shorts." Rhodes honors include: the American Book Award, the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Outstanding Writing, and two Arizona Book Awards. Rhodes is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and Artistic Director of Piper Global Engagement at Arizona State University. (Bowker Author Biography)