Television personality Jeff Corwin takes the reader on an expedition through the bayous of Louisiana, and introduces some of the diverse wildlife found there.
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Eleven-year-old tomboy Livie is sure that she is responsible for the accident that has put her mother into a coma, so, trying to make amends, she travels through the Louisiana swamps to get a spell that will make her mother well again.
In the small town of Ondine, Louisiana, fourteen-year-old Iris uncovers family secrets when she conjures up the ghost of a boy missing for decades and decides to solve the mystery of his disappearance.
Fifteen short stories blending Vietnamese folklore with American realities as the Vietnamese refugees try to balance their traditions with American popular culture.