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1 online resource (195 pages) |
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| Summary |
Fans of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee and Louis Sachar's Holes will enjoy this story about a boy and the ancient secrets that hide deep in the heart of the Florida everglades near a place called Muck City. When Charlie moves from Palm Beach to the small town of Taper, Florida, he discovers a different world. Pinned between the everglades and the swampy banks of Lake Okeechobee, the small town produces sugar cane ... and the fastest runners in the country. Kids chase muck rabbits in the fields while the cane is being burned and harvested. Dodging flames and blades and breathing smoke, they run down the rabbits for three dollars a skin. And when they can do that, running a football is easy. But there are things in the swamp, roaming the cane at night, that cannot be explained, and they seem connected to sprawling mounds older than the swamps. Together with his step-second cousin Herman "Cotton" Mack, the fastest boy on the muck, Charlie hunts secrets in the glades and on the muck flats where the cane grows secrets as old as the soft earth, secrets that haunted, tripped, and trapped the original native tribes, ensnared conquistadors, and buried runaway slaves. Secrets only the muck knows. |
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680 Lexile. |
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680L Lexile |
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Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 6 165732 |
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Accelerated Reader MG 4.5 6 165732 |
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When his stepfather moves them to Taper, Florida, in the Everglades, twelve-year-old Charlie discovers a secret world hidden within the sugar cane fields, as well as new family connections and friendships. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
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Swamps -- Fiction.
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Sugarcane -- Fiction.
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Cousins -- Fiction.
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Stepfamilies -- Fiction.
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Family life -- Florida -- Fiction.
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Supernatural -- Fiction.
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Swamps -- Juvenile fiction.
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Sugarcane -- Juvenile fiction.
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Cousins -- Juvenile fiction.
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Stepfamilies -- Juvenile fiction.
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Families -- Florida -- Juvenile fiction.
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Cousins. |
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Families. |
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Stepfamilies. |
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Sugarcane. |
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Swamps. |
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Everglades (Fla.) -- Fiction.
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Everglades (Fla.) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Florida. |
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Florida -- Everglades. |
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Electronic books. |
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Paranormal fiction.
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Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Paranormal fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Wilson, Nathan D. Boys of blur New York : Random House, [2014] 9780449816738 (DLC) 2013023615 (OCoLC)853244491 |
| ISBN |
9780449816752 : $23.97 |
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0449816753 : $23.97 |
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