Burt, Jake
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURSalley, Coleen.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SALHurd, Thacher.
Summary: Miles and the Swamp Band have the time of their lives playing at the Alligator Ball, until they discover the menu includes Swamp Band soup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1985
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPB HUR BASKETJones, C. B.
Summary: It is summer in Bog Hollow, and Austin, Ethan, Daryl, and Nellie are working together, despite the contentious relationship between Austin and Nellie, to prepare the new snake exhibit at the park's visitor center; but Austin and Nellie also have other things to worry about--Nellie's pet corn snake has escaped, and Austin's father and Nellie's mother are spending an awful lot of time together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED JONEstroff, Sharon
Summary: After finding themselves mysteriously transported to a magical island, this time in a rainforest swamp, Daniel, Joy, and Kimani must figure out how to safely traverse across the island with their knowledge of friction and pulleys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: West Margin Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ESTBernstrom, Daniel
Summary: "A fearless little girl takes off in search of a giant gator--but she's not going into that swamp alone! No way! She wants YOU, the reader, to come along. Off you go, peering through the lush landscapes, looking for that gator! But each time you think you see it? Oops! Just a fox. Or some ducks! Or a snake. Maybe you'll never find the gator, gator, gator...With stunning illustrations from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Summary: A seed from a mangrove tree floats on the sea until it comes to rest on the shore of a faraway lagoon where, over time, it becomes a mangrove island that shelters many birds and animals, even during a hurricane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHEFields, Jan
Summary: The Discover Cryptids film crew travel to South Carolina to investigate reports of a Swamp lizard man, which they are convinced is a hoax, just like all the other monsters--but Gabe is not so sure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC FIEBarry, Dave
Summary: Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the "Everglades Melon Monster," inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARStratton-Porter, Gene
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Porter 2020Stratton-Porter, Gene
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck 2016
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Summary: The Glitch Force: Three kids interested in Minecraft. There's Duncan, a genius redstoner, Miranda, a sharpshooter with encyclopedic knowledge of Minecraft, and Zed, an expert builder with a prankster heart. Oh, and Duncan happens to a genius at repurposing his scientist mother's quantum electronic gizmos. When he happens to find a quantum glitch in the Minecraft programming code, it creates an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC GLINijkamp, Marieke
Summary: "When twelve-year-old Blake is shipped away to stay with her weird aunt in Fever Swamp for the summer, she expects her weeks to be filled with video games, mosquito bites, and a whole lot of nothing. Instead, she finds herself in a spooky turf war between wolf hunters and werewolves! Blake's never let anything -- including her prosthetic hand -- slow her down or stop her from crushing her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC GOOHurd, Thacher.
Summary: Miles and the Swamp Band have the time of their lives playing at the Alligator Ball, until they discover the menu includes Swamp Band soup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1984
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC APPRoy, Ron
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ROYBernstrom, Daniel
Summary: A young girl invites readers to join her on an alligator hunt, which leads to the discovery of many other animals living in the bayou.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SANStine, R. L
Summary: When their scientist father moves them to a new home next to a swamp, Kelli and Shawn hear stories about a terrifying, ancient beast that inhabits the muck and the pair try to convince their father to move them out before it strikes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC STIMcCammon, Robert R.
Summary: "The year is 1703. The place: the Carolina settlement of Charles Town. Matthew Corbett, professional "problem solver," has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball. What should be a pleasant assignment takes a darker turn when Matthew becomes involved in a murder investigation. A sixteen-year-old girl has been stabbed to death on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCKey, Watt
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEYFagerholm, Monika
Summary: "In 1969, a young girl makes a trip from Coney Island to the swampy coastland on the rural outskirts of Helsinki, Finland. There, her death will immediately become part of local mythology, furnishing boys and girls with fodder for endless romantic imaginings. Everyone who lives near the swamp dreams about Eddie de Wire, the lost American girl. . . . For both Sandra and Doris, two lonely,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAGParker, Natalie C.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PARBurg, Ann E.
Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016