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English
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Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn, ancient Sugar Man, and his raccoon-brother Swamp Scouts Bingo and J'miah try to save Bayou Tourterelle from feral pigs Clydine and Buzzie, greedy Sunny Boy Beaucoup, and world-class alligator wrestler and would-be land developer Jaeger Stitch.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Reports of zombies and grave-robbers alarm the people of a Louisiana swampland village, but Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink begin to suspect that the supernatural may not be the cause of the eerie occurrences. Z is for ZOMBIE - Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are excited to vacation in the Louisiana bayou. But the small village they visit has a scary problem. The villagers tell stories of voodoo and a giant zombie with silver hair who has been digging up graves...
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Professor Jeremy Logan is brought onto famed explorer Porter Stone's archaeological team to investigate a series of harrowing and inexplicable occurrences that are causing people on the expedition to fear a centuries-old curse behind Pharoah Narmer's elusive "double" crown of the two Egypts
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Young Kermit is a curious, fun-loving frog who likes hanging out with his amphibious best friends. He loves the swamp, but wonders what lies beyond the tall marsh grass. When one of Kermit's friends gets nabbed by a pet store owner, Kermit leaps into action, leaving the swamp and racing to rescue his friend
Author
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since her father was killed when she was just a child, Miranda Crabtree has kept her head down and her eyes up, ferrying contraband for a mad preacher and his declining band of followers to make ends meet and to protect an old witch and a secret child from harm. But dark forces are at work in the bayou, both human and supernatural, conspiring to disrupt the rhythms of Miranda's peculiar and precarious life. And when the preacher makes an unthinkable...
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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...
9) Bayou moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When her parents vanish, Cerise Mar becomes trapped in a war between two nations of the Weird and finds an unexpected ally in a changeling soldier who has been forced back into service to track down a rival nation's spymaster
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Language
English
Description
Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems - if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is, some very bad men are also looking for the treasure, and they know Jesse...
12) The weirdo
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1993], c1991
Language
English
Description
Chip Clewt, known simply as the weirdo, lives like a hermit in the Powhatan Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge that is at the center of a heated controversy between local hunters and environmentalists. A hunting ban on the Powhatan is about to expire. The environmentalists want to protect the wildlife; the hunters are oiling their guns. Then someone completely unexpected comes forward to spearhead the conservation effort--the weirdo.
Includes a reader's...
13) Beware the wild
Author
Series
Beware the wild volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A teenaged girl and her boyfriend must find her brother after he wanders into their town's swamp and a mysterious girl appears in his place.
Author
Series
Epossumondas volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
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
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"--
16) Marshes & swamps
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Description
"Introducing, the wetlands: unique ecosystems that are not only a home for an extensive amount of wildlife, but also a vital storage place for one of Earth's most precious resources, water. What lives there? Find out in this simple yet extensive exploration of marshes and swamps and what they are, why they're important, and the birds, fish, and wildlife that make it their homes." -- Amazon.com.
A picture book that defines marshes and swamps, discusses...
17) Swamp song
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Down in the swamp where the cypress grows, the animals all come out to enjoy the day
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