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Author
Language
English
Description
"A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment--by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood...
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
1984.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Deeply wounded by her embittered mother's lack of sympathy for her aspirations, Elnora finds comfort in the nearby Limberlost Swamp, whose beauty and rich abundance provide her with the means to better her life.
5) Freckles
Author
Language
English
Description
Orphaned and maimed, Freckles' bitterness about his fate is lessened when he is hired to guard a stretch of lumber in the wild Limberlost, and, after meeting the beautiful "Swamp Angel," he determines to find out about his past.
Author
Series
Beware the wild volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A teenaged girl and her boyfriend must find her older brother after he wanders into their town's swamp and a mysterious girl appears in his place.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Copper Inskeep holds Windydown Vale's deepest and darkest secret: he is the ghoul that haunts the Vale, donning a gruesome costume to scare travelers and townsfolk away from the dangers of the surrounding swamps. When a terrified girl claims she and her father were attacked by a creature--one that could not have been Copper--it threatens not just Copper's secret, but the fate of all Windydown"--
9) Spineless
Author
Series
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When his asthma lands him at a health resort in the wilds of Gilded Age South Florida, twelve-year-old Algie Emsworth is over the moon. The scientific treasure trove of unexplored swamps may launch his dream career as a naturalist. But even Algie is startled when he happens upon a brand-new species and her brood in the karst springs surrounding the resort. Algie quickly realizes he must keep his discovery a secret: a famous collector of exotic animals...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The author explores the inner workings of Ten Mile Lake in Cass County, Minnesota. From this intimate study, we learn how the physical characteristics of a lake affect the plants and animals within it and how the various forms of life inhabiting a lake interact. Through special chapters that reveal the rhythms and constraints of various species of fish, anglers may learn to hone techniques to heighten fishing success.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"An environmental history of Freeborn County, Minnesota's Big Marsh, which was tilled and drained 130 years ago at public expense for agricultural purposes. Told from a personal point of view, this story shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve them, both then and now"--
"A rural community is changed forever when moneyed interests conspire to transform a treasured wetland"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Adam says he can't remember where he was for the two months he went missing in a Florida swamp. That's not true. He does remember. The truth: He was driving with his parents, and the car crashed when his father swerved to avoid colliding with a giant Sasquatch-like creature standing in the highway. Haunted by his parents' disappearance and hounded for claiming to have seen Bigfoot, Adam sets off into the deadly wilderness on a hunt for answers as...
13) The weirdo
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge.
Author
Series
Epossumondas volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Forgetting his mother's warnings, Epossumondas goes into the swamp alone then must pretend to be dead time and again as he hears frightening sounds and fears they are being made by the dreaded loup garou.
15) Hideout
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"The son of a Mississippi policeman finds a boy living in hiding in the wilderness and tries to help him without giving away his secret"--
16) Mama don't allow
Author
Series
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, this high-energy production is foot-stomping fun. Tom Chapin's easy-going narration sets the tone for this story about Miles and his Swamp Band, whose music is in hot demand -– from sharp-toothed alligators at an all-night ball where the band is earmarked to entertain and be the main course! Jazzy music plays throughout as Chapin both reads and sings this entertaining book....
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Kelli and Shawn move to another state, right next to a giant swamp that their scientist father can study. Legend has it that an ancient beast named Shaggedy lives far below the surface of the swamp.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Gulf Coast hurricane makes landfall, Cort must unexpectedly put his all skills--and bravery--to the test"--
19) The cats' meow
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nellie Tibbits and her herpetologist mother have been in Bog Hollow for a month, but most of the other children regard Nellie as a weird Northerner; however her pet corn snake wins the friendship of Daryl Tate, who is as obsessed with snakes as his grandmother is with stray cats, and when one of the cats disappears Nellie joins the Bog Hollow boys in the search--and hatches a plan to help get Granny Tate's strays adopted.
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