gulf states

Provides information about Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, from their geography, history, and government to their economy, population demographics, and major cities.

The Southeast is rich in agricultual heritage, natural resources, and today it has a variety of industries.

Narrates the harrowing events that followed a family's decision not to abandon their Gulfport, Mississippi, home although it was in the path of Hurricane Camille.

On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea.

A collection of African-American folk tales, some dating back to the Civil War, that provide insight into life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century, grouped by subject.

A collection of African-American folk tales, some dating back to the Civil War, that provide insight into life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century, grouped by subject.

Ten-year-old Keeper heads to a sandbar in a small boat along with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain in order to find her mother, a mermaid who left her when Keeper was only three.

Discusses the conditions that cause hurricanes to form and the precautions that should be taken against them. Also decribes some famous hurricane disasters, including Camille, which hit the Gulf States in August, 1969.