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Gnat Stokes and the Foggy Bottom Swamp Queen |
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| Book: Hardcover | 5.74 x 8.62in | 160 pages | ISBN 9780399242878 | 21 Apr 2005 | Philomel | 10 - AND UP years |
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When Goodlow Pryce is stolen from Mary's Cove, twelve-year-old Gnat is determined to bring hope and peace back to her stricken mountain home. Even if that means she has to face Zelda, the evil Swamp Queen, who lurks in nearby Foggy Bottom. Little does Gnat know that the Swamp Queen she's pitting herself against is her own mother. Or that, in defeating her and saving Goodlow, Gnat will come to learn about the many sides of love and its transforming power.
From the author of The First Horse I See and I Am Regina, comes this hilarious and spirited adventure based on the famous folktale Tam Lin.
"Motherless Gnat Stokes, 12, is a cheerful, hardy, adventurous sort who is determined to rescue Goodlow Pryce, who was stolen 7 years earlier by Zelda, the malevolent, magical Swamp Queen. When Gnat catches a mysterious swamp cat and discovers that Goodlow sent it to Penelope, his true love, she removes the charmed locket and the rescue message it carries. When she puts in on, she falls in love with Goodlow. Battling scary swamp monsters and the revelation that Zelda is her mother, Gnat comes to realize that she must give Goodlow up in order to save him. Told in Gnat’s mountain-tinged, irreverent voice, this imaginative tale is strewn with laughter from humor involving the consumption of beans to send-ups of self-righteous community figures who don’t favor education. Imagine Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Sang Spell (S & S, 1998) with much wilder plot events and characters and you will begin to see the certain appeal of this bounding, delightful, Tam Lin-based story." School Library Journal, starred review
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