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Inspired by an iconic Norman Rockwell painting and translated from an original French text, this is a story about the day a little girl held her head high and changed the world.

"Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] 'The Yellow House' tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina"--Provided by publisher.

Blanche DuBois, a faded, psychologically fragile Southern belle, arrives in New Orleans to visit her sister, Stella, and gets embroiled in a vicious battle of wills with Stella's brooding husband, Stanley.

Presents a biography of Ruby Bridges who was just six years old when she was chosen to be the first (and only) black child in the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. Her courageous act left the legacy that given a chance, anyone at any age can make a difference in the world.

With kinetic art and compelling narrative, captures the tragedy of 2005's Hurricane Katrina, and the triumph of the human spirit in the face of disaster, bigotry, and official incompetence.

In 1940s New Orleans, Fish Elliot is a polio-survivor with a knack for inventing and building things, and his African American neighbor Olympia is a girl with a talent for messing things up, but they are united in an effort to save a starving stray dog they call Liberty--and when Liberty is caged by a nasty farmer, they find an unlikely ally in a German prisoner of war, Erich, who is not much older than the two children.

"Describes the holiday of Mardi Gras, including how and where it's celebrated and its history"--Provided by publisher.

After letting his band down by missing rehearsal, Shorty has some serious questions about what it means to be a leader. He hits the New Orleans streets to find some answers, getting wise advice and soaking up inspiration along the way.

When the mysterious first aid kit takes golden retriever Ranger to New Orleans shortly before Hurricane Katrina hits, he finds himself helping Clare Porter and her grandmother, who are waiting for Clare's father at their home in the Lower Ninth Ward--and when the levees break and Clare is separated from Nana, Ranger must somehow get her to the relative safety of the Superdome, and reunite her with her family.

Seventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 100 years old, and really showing its age, but which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast--but old houses have histories, and sometimes ghosts, and a mysterious old comic book that Denise finds in the attic may hold the answer to a crime and the terrifying things that keep happening in what she thinks of as the "Agony" house.