Bayou Magic toot & puddle The novelist has just completed

The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows

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Bayou Magic toot & puddle The novelist has just completedA 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