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Swamplandia!
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Author:
Russell, Karen
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family.
"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 embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.
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Street Date:
02/01/2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780307595447
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Karen Russell. (2011). Swamplandia! Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Karen Russell. 2011. Swamplandia! Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Karen Russell, Swamplandia! Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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Karen Russell. Swamplandia! Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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"Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times
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"Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times
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