Swamplandia!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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 23 |
Section 3 | 42 |
Section 4 | 53 |
Section 5 | 67 |
Section 6 | 78 |
Section 7 | 95 |
Section 8 | 120 |
Section 14 | 225 |
Section 15 | 236 |
Section 16 | 260 |
Section 17 | 291 |
Section 18 | 311 |
Section 19 | 327 |
Section 20 | 343 |
Section 21 | 356 |
Section 9 | 125 |
Section 10 | 171 |
Section 11 | 183 |
Section 12 | 203 |
Section 13 | 213 |
Section 22 | 369 |
Section 23 | 380 |
Section 24 | 399 |
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