| Swamplandia! Contributor(s): Russell, Karen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307276686 ISBN-13: 9780307276681 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 900 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.1" W x 8.2" (0.60 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 150033 Reading Level: 6.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 20.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New York Times Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ms. Russell is one in a million. . . . A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book.--The New York Times Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia , her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness. As Ava sets out on a mission through the magical swamps to save them all, we are drawn into a lush and bravely imagined debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality. |