Please Congratulate Rita Monette on the Re-Release of
The Legend of Ghost Dog Island!!
Behind every legend lies the truth…
About Legend of Ghost Dog Island:
Moving is nothing new for ten-year-old Nikki Landry. Her father relocates their raggedy old houseboat several times a year in search of better crabbing spots. However, their latest move has brought her to a mysterious bayou where she feels something is watching her from a nearby island.
Nikki learns of a local legend about something sinister inhabiting those swamps, stealing the souls of dogs...which would explain the strange howling sounds. Papa reassures her there’s nothing on the island but gators and snakes. He should know. He’s spent his whole life trapping and fishing those bayous and swamps…But maybe there’s something Papa doesn’t know.
Nikki and her new friends begin to uncover strange happenings from years ago that may have started the old legend…and town folks aren’t talking.
Then her beloved beagle goes missing.
Join Nikki as she seeks to discover the real truth behind the legend of Ghost Dog Island…before it’s too late.
Read an exclusive excerpt:
Moving to to a new bayou.
As the propeller stirred up smells of rotted seaweed and dead fish, I
stared out into the swamp. A cypress tree all draped in silver moss stared back
at me like a crooked old woman dipping her hair into the muddy bayou. Its twisted
limbs reached out to me. I shuddered.
Papa loved telling legends about those swamps…and what might be
living out there. I was pretty sure most were just old Cajun stories with no
truth to ’em at all. But they
sure could give you the willies.
“What do you suppose lives up in that swamp, Snoop?”
He opened one eye. It took a lot to rile that beagle. He was the
laziest hunting dog there ever was.
But, everything looked pretty ordinary to me. A white egret stood in
the tall grass holding a small fish. Its dinner squirmed to get free. The
high-pitched song of cicadas rang through the trees. A gray snake with brown
blotches slithered off the bank and zig-zagged toward the boat.
I jerked my feet up under me.
A huge alligator blinked his bulging eyes sideways at us from a
half-sunk log, the gray mud on his back all dried and cracked from the hot sun.
“Look at the size of that thing, Snooper.
It could gobble you up before you could let out a yelp.”
Author Name: Rita Monette
Genre(s): Middle Grade, Adventure, Mystery
Tags: Adventure, mystery, middle grade, louisiana, bayou, dogs
Length: Approx. 204 pages
E-book: 978-1-987976-00-7
Paperback: 978-0-9947490-9-3
Re-Release Date: September 1, 2015
Publisher: Mirror World Publishing
Amazon Link:
http://amzn.to/1VbZ7jq
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Meet the Author:
Rita Monette was born and raised in Southwest Louisiana. She loves to write stories set in the beautiful, yet mysterious, bayous and swamps of her home state.
Her middle grade series, The Nikki Landry Swamp Legends, is based on tales told by her father—who made his living in those bayous—of reasons to stay out of the swamp.
She currently lives with her husband, four lap dogs, and one lap cat, in the mountains of Tennessee. Besides writing and illustrating, she loves watching the many birds that make their habitat on the Cumberland Plateau, working in the garden, and frequenting waterfalls.
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Thank you so much for provided readers with an exclusive excerpt from The Legend of Ghost Dog Island!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on getting this book back on the shelves where it belongs, Rita! Cheers!
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