{"product_id":"grandperes-ghost-swamp-9780063325432","title":"Grandpere's Ghost Swamp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A perfect recipe of humor, family connections, honoring the natural world, and a ghost with unfinished business.\" --Lynne Kelly, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSong for a Whale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJunior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFerris\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eGhosts of Tupelo Landing\u003c\/i\u003e in this \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ecozy ghost story about family, environmental activism, food, and friendship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBasil Theriot has spent her entire life in New Orleans--in her family's famed Cajun restaurant in the French Quarter, really--but she's never been out to the bayou where her grandfather grew up. She's also never seen a ghost, even though dozens of ghost tours pass by the restaurant every day and her best friend Tommy is determined to be a ghost hunter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then Grandpere's ghost appears. And he has a mission for her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBasil wouldn't mind being haunted if Grandpere could be helpful and share his secret recipe that might save the restaurant. But instead, he's intent on connecting Basil with her Cajun heritage. He sends her out to the bayou to meet his friends: an airboat captain, a shrimper, and a scientist rebuilding Louisiana's fast-disappearing coastline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eGracie Under the Waves \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall, Grandpere's Ghost Swamp \u003c\/i\u003ehas a little bit of everything: a pinch of spookiness, a dash of environmental activism, and a heaping of family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarsh, Rachel M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel M. Marsh\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eRougarou Magic, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich was a 2024 Junior Library Guild selection. She earned her MFA in creative writing for children from Simmons University. Originally from Baton Rouge, she now lives in New Orleans, where she and her husband eat the world's best food and renovate their almost-hundred-year-old house.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Greenwillow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52128914997522,"sku":"9780063325432","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_50523816-0254-4f08-88df-54a8bc0457da.jpg?v=1773824172","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/grandperes-ghost-swamp-9780063325432","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}