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.
As Ava sets out on a mission through the magical.
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.
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