The Evangeline Rose

Twelve-year-old Marley Bourque knows the rhythm of her father's shrimp boat better than any classroom lesson—until an offshore oil platform explodes and coats her Louisiana marshland in crude. With the fishing grounds closed, her family unravels: her father turns to pills, her mother to silence, and the settlement money everyone promised would save them becomes another kind of poison. Armed with nothing but a notebook and a stubbornness bred into her bones, Marley must decide whether to rescue the life she's always known or build one worth surviving.