swamps

Firebird and her twin brother Ford have always accepted their father's isolated way of life and secluded home in the middle of a desolate swamp until the discovery of old family secrets changes everything.

Explains how swamps and marshes are formed, describes the plants and animals that live in them, and discusses the importance of wetlands in nature's overall pattern.

As eleven-year-old Joy Wells, a proud resident of the nearly-abandoned town of Spooking, tries to stop construction of a water park in a bog she believes is home to a monster--and the setting of her favorite horror story--a man with his own mysterious connection to Spooking will do anything to stop her.

Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhatan Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge, in North Carolina.

Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge.

Elnora Comstock, an impoverished young girl growing up on the edge of the Limberlost swamp in Indiana, is a lover of nature who has an opportunity to pay for her education by collecting moths.

Alby and his pet, Squee, know that they are not allowed to play in the alien swamp, but they still cannot resist splashing around and getting into trouble.

Children will have fun making alligators snap, frogs jump, and catfish swim on a nighttime visit to the swamp.

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.