Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her familyβs island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Avaβs mother, the parkβs 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.
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On The Media - September 1, 2012 Morning Edition - April 17, 2012
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