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Bowser the mutt lives with eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother in the normally quiet Louisiana bayou town of St. Roch, but news that a Bull shark has somehow made its way into the swamp has everyone excited, and the cash bounty for landing the shark has lured some very shady characters into town--one hunter in particular is prepared to go to any lengths to collect the money.
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Rat, Squirrel, Rabbit, and Mouse want to cross the bayou, but next to the log they are considering as a bridge is a sneaky tail, which may be attached to someone dangerous--each of the four approach the problem with a different strategy, with varying results.
3) Bayou magic
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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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La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. Gray spends her summers in the tiny town, the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World. And the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six months earlier. How can someone vanish into thin air in a town full of psychics? As she digs into the night that Elora went missing, Grey begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something. When a...
11) Sweet Magnolia
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Denise visits her grandmother, a wildlife rehabilitator in the Louisiana bayou, and helps heal and free an injured painted bunting chick.
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Raised in a tribe of street urchins, Maddie Grande was taught to be a thief and beggar on the streets of New Orleans. But Maddie doesn't know her real name or where she came from. Raised by Dexter Grande, Maddie and her twin "brothers" have recently left New Orleans and moved to the bayou. The twins are rarely there, but Maddie has come to love the swamp. She has learned to fish and trap and sell pelts at the local mercantile. Maddie longs to change
...13) Mama's bayou
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A mother rocks her child to sleep while listening to the sounds bayou creatures make at night.
17) Bayou lullaby
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A colorful goodnight poem to a "bayou gal." Includes a glossary with Cajun pronunciation.
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This short film offers a portrait of the Isle de Jean Charles, a tiny island deep in the bayous of Southern Louisiana. The film explores the changes taking place on the island through the lives of two residents whose families are facing a future where rising seas, coastal erosion and storms are threatening to wash their home away.