Swamplandia!
About this book
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline. And Swamplandia!, the family's island home and theme park, in the Florida Everglades, has sophisticated competition - The World of Darkness. Ava is a resourceful, but terrified twelve-year-old, who must manage seventy gators, and the vast landscape of her grief. Her mother, Swamplandia!'s star attraction, has just died; her sister is having an affair with a ghost called the Dredgeman; her Grandpa has been sent to an old folk's home; her brother has defected to The World of Darkness to keep the family afloat; and her father is AWOL. To save them, Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine.
Subjects
- alligatoren
- alligators
- amusement parks
- death
- familie
- fiction
- fiction, general
- florida, fiction
- freizeitpark
- girls
- large type books
- madchen
- motherless families
- mothers
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2011-12-10
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2012-01-01
- quests (expeditions)
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9