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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since Miranda Crabtree's father died when she was 14, she's managed to get by as a smuggler ferrying contraband through the Prosper River bayou for deranged preacher Billy Cotton. Now 21, Miranda learns that Cotton and his dwindling band of followers are planning to sacrifice his young daughter , Littlefish, who possesses the gift of "the sight," to the darkness of the swamp, testing Miranda's resolve to keep her head down and mind her own business....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit and the consequent release of their stored carbon. Wide-ranging and idiosyncratic, Proulx's explanation of wetlands takes readers to the fens of sixteenth-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay Lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire and America's...
4) Swamp song
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Down in the swamp where the cypress grows, the animals all come out to enjoy the day.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Adam says he can't remember where he was for the two months he went missing in a Florida swamp. That's not true. He does remember. The truth: He was driving with his parents, and the car crashed when his father swerved to avoid colliding with a giant Sasquatch-like creature standing in the highway. Haunted by his parents' disappearance and hounded for claiming to have seen Bigfoot, Adam sets off into the deadly wilderness on a hunt for answers as...
Author
Publisher
Star Bright Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Trosclair ignores his father's warning about Gargantua, the rogue alligator living in nearby Bayou Fontaine, and heads off into Bee Island Swamp to hunt for turtle eggs.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the "Everglades Melon Monster," inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity.
10) Virginnie's hat
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to retrieve her hat from the sycamore tree where it had been blown by the wind, Virginnie tries to dislodge it by throwing her boots up one after the other, unaware of the threatening swamp creatures behind her.
11) Dinosaurumpus!
Author
Language
English
Description
A rhyming tale of Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and even Tyrannosaurus gathering at the swamp to dance.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
After Turtle has saved him several times during the spring, summer, and fall, Newt finds a way to repay his friend before winter comes to the swamp.
13) Hideout
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his Mississippi policeman gives Sam a fishing boat, he uses the boat to disappear for hours at time. Exploring the swampy surroundings of his bayou home, Sam finds a boy living on his own in the wilderness. Davey gives evasive explanation as to why he's on his own, and Sam makes efforts to help him. But this leads him to telling small lies that only get bigger as the danger increases for both boys and hidden truths become harder to conceal.
14) Bayou moon
Author
Series
Edge series (Ilona Andrews) volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Walmart and magic is a fairytale–and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny…
Cerise Mar and her unruly clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands between the state of Louisiana and the Weird. When her parents vanish,...
Cerise Mar and her unruly clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands between the state of Louisiana and the Weird. When her parents vanish,...
15) Freckles
Author
Publisher
Norilana Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
16) Who invited you?
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A rhyming counting tale in which Possum, Skunk, Frog, and other animals join a procession through the swamp, one with a potentially dangerous conclusion.
17) Swamp chomp
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
35 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In the rippling waters of a swamp, mosquitoes fly and hum, dragonflies swoop and drone, and other creatures live their interwoven lives. Includes facts about swamps and food chains.
Author
Series
Epossumondas volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Forgetting his mother's warnings, Epossumondas goes into the swamp alone then must pretend to be dead time and again as he hears frightening sounds and fears they are being made by the dreaded loup garou.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Upon hearing a swamp monster's splashing, rumbling approach, a boy hides in a tree, where he is soon joined by his sister, brother, two cousins, and even the monster itself, until Ma arrives to bring them all home to bed.
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