Swamplandia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594135743)

A "New York Times" Best Book of the Year
One of "Granta's" Best Young American Novelists
Selected for the "New Yorker's" 20 Under 40
Nominated for the Orange Prize
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.

Author: Karen Russell
ISBN-10: 1594135746
ISBN-13: 9781594135743
Publisher: Large Print Press
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2012
Pages: 603
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10d
Large Print

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 20
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 150033 / Swamplandia!