The Resource Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
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- Summary
- Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wrestling. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava's father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety eight gators as well as her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, the author has written a novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 315 pages
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9780307263995
- Label
- Swamplandia!
- Title
- Swamplandia!
- Statement of responsibility
- Karen Russell
- Subject
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- trueQuests
- Florida -- Ten Thousand Islands
- trueGirls
- Girls
- Girls -- Fiction
- Girls -- Fiction
- trueGrief in teenage girls
- trueMissing teenage girls
- trueMother-separated families
- Motherless families
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- Mothers -- Death
- Mothers -- Death
- Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
- trueSwamps
- trueTeenage girls
- Ten Thousand Islands (Fla.) -- Fiction
- trueTen Thousand Islands, Florida
- Alligators
- trueAlligators
- Alligators -- Fiction
- trueAmusement parks
- Amusement parks
- Amusement parks -- Fiction
- trueDeath of mothers
- Everglades (Fla.) -- Fiction
- trueEverglades, Florida
- trueFamily relationships
- Fantasy fiction
- Fiction
- Florida -- Everglades
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wrestling. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava's father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety eight gators as well as her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, the author has written a novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2012.
- Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 2011.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2011.
- School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2011.
- Awards note
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, 2012.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 377341
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1981-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Russell, Karen
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- UG
- Literary form
- fiction
- Reading level
- 6.3
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader AR
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Girls
- Mothers
- Motherless families
- Amusement parks
- Alligators
- Alligators
- Amusement parks
- Girls
- Motherless families
- Mothers
- Girls
- Everglades (Fla.)
- Ten Thousand Islands (Fla.)
- Florida
- Florida
- Label
- Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 799530
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 315 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307263995
- Lccn
- 2010036708
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780307263995
- (OCoLC)613432205
- Label
- Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 799530
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 315 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307263995
- Lccn
- 2010036708
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780307263995
- (OCoLC)613432205
Subject
- trueQuests
- Florida -- Ten Thousand Islands
- trueGirls
- Girls
- Girls -- Fiction
- Girls -- Fiction
- trueGrief in teenage girls
- trueMissing teenage girls
- trueMother-separated families
- Motherless families
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- Mothers -- Death
- Mothers -- Death
- Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
- trueSwamps
- trueTeenage girls
- Ten Thousand Islands (Fla.) -- Fiction
- trueTen Thousand Islands, Florida
- Alligators
- trueAlligators
- Alligators -- Fiction
- trueAmusement parks
- Amusement parks
- Amusement parks -- Fiction
- trueDeath of mothers
- Everglades (Fla.) -- Fiction
- trueEverglades, Florida
- trueFamily relationships
- Fantasy fiction
- Fiction
- Florida -- Everglades
Genre
Included in
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2012
- trueSchool Library Journal's Adult Books 4 Teens: 2011
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2011
- trueFor Fans Of . . . Where the Crawdads Sing
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Adult Fiction for Young Adults: 2011
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
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