Bayou Magic toot & puddle As the gossip escalates

As the gossip escalates

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Bayou Magic toot & puddle As the gossip escalatesA magical coming of age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids plus an environmental twist. It's city girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid? As her grandmother