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Living in a tiny houseboat, Nikki is stuck with sharing a room with her little brother, Jesse, who does what little brothers do besttorture their sisters. Fed up, she decides to build a place of her owna tree house where no boys are allowed. Meanwhile, something strange is happening on Bayou Platte. Things and people are coming up missingand little stick dolls covered in moss, known locally as ';signs' from the legendary Rougarou, are showing up in their place.Is the Rougarou really to blame? Can Nikki get to the bottom of the mystery before things get worse? Find out in this third installment of the Nikki Landry Swamp Legends Series!

';When one man's treasure is another man's curse.'Nikki Landry is turning eleven years old, and is looking forward to riding her bike to school. That is until it falls apart. Papa can't afford a new one. Is she doomed to ride the smelly old school bus from now on?Hearing of an old pirate ship, and a legend about long-ago pirates burying treasure on a nearby swamp island, Nikki sees a way out. But when she makes a birthday wish for the pirate's gold, things go terribly wrong. Did her wish trigger an ancient curse?Join Nikki and her friends as they find themselves sailing away aboard a haunted schooner with ghostly pirates into the Gulf of Mexico and into the year eighteen fourteen.How will they ever find their way back home?

Behind Every Legend Lies the Truth.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 swampsBut 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 legendand 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 Islandbefore it's too late.