Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Author:Jewell Parker Rhodes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic, Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Ethnic, Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / African American, Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2015-05-11T16:00:00+00:00
All day, I think and think on the porch.
Grandmère offers me food, but I turn it down. Sweet Pea pecks dirt at my feet.
Beyond Grandmère’s yard, there are herons, rabbits, turtles, gators, and snakes, twisting on land, swimming in water. Plants that droop, shiver, and sway, making shady caves that shimmer with mysterious life.
Bayou folks are the best. I like visiting Bolden, the shrimp boat captain; Willie Mae, his pretty wife; and their kids. Liza grows vegetables and herbs. Old Jake raises chickens and saves hurt birds. Even Bolden’s little Douglass knows how to catch fish.
Everybody, young and old, lives off the water and land.
What’ll happen if Bon Temps disappears?
Where will folks go?
Grandmère wouldn’t be happy in New Orleans.
My head hurts.
Oil is energy. Energy is good. But what if you can’t get oil without causing harm? To land, water, animals? People?
Environment. It’s a gold-star spelling word.
Saving the environment is harder than fractions. Harder than getting my sisters to be nice. Harder than dreaming nightmares. Or searching for mermaids.
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