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Marcie thinks she's seen a monster in the bayou. At first everyone laughs at her but Tom Henson, who begins to spread viscous rumors about Marcie's new friend, Frankie.
An imaginative nine-year-old has trouble when she claims to have seen a sea monster in the bayou near her house and when she tries to protect her new friend whose harelip has made her the subject of malicious gossip.