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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..
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.
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. . . .
Russell is one in a million.
New York Times Bestseller - Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ms
