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Swamplandia! Vintage Contemporaries

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By Karen Russell
Publisher Vintage
Swamplandia! Vintage Contemporaries
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Thirteenyearold Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her familys island home and gatorwrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Avas mother, the parks 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. br br 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.

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120387 words120,387 words
418 pages418 pages
Lexile 900LLexile 900L
Published 2011Published 2011

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9780307595447

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