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Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his privileged life has been funded by stolen money. After using the family business, the single largest employer in his small Louisiana town, to embezzle millions and drain the employees' retirement accounts, Owen's father vanished without a trace, leaving Owen and his mother to deal with the fallout. Owen returns to...
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Teenager Maxine is determined to scatter her father's ashes at the lighthouse on Shackles Island, off the coast of Louisiana because that is where she has good memories of him; Eli, haunted by the ghost of his older sister, is determined to end his own life where she died, on the rocks under the lighthouse--but neither Max or Eli count on running into each other, or on Hurricane Celeste which is roaring toward the island.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this modern-day young adult take on Breakfast at Tiffany's, two teens from vastly different worlds discover that sharing their strengths, including the love of their friends and family, may just be the path to finding wholeness within themselves."--
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
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 objections, to sit for a portrait. While Madame plots her last hurrah, stories that span generations-from the big house to out in the fields-of routine horrors, secrets buried as deep as the family fortune, and the tangled bonds of descendants and enslaved. --from Amazon.
Author
Series
Rules volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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Description
In a small town deep in the bayou, seventeen-year-old Grey searches for answers about the disappearance of her best friend, uncovering long-held secrets that threaten everything she believed about herself, her family, her friends, and her home.
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