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Audiobooks Narrated by Kathi Appelt
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Raccoon brothers Bingo and J’miah are the newest recruits of the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts—a big responsibility, yes, but rest assured: they are indeed ready to shoulder this duty. You might even say they’ve been waiting for this their whole lives. Because the opportunity to serve the Sugar Man—the massive creature who delights in delicious sugar cane and magnanimously rules over the swamp—is an honor, yes it is. And the rest of the critters in the swamp rely heavily on the intel of these hardworking Scouts.
Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn, on the other hand, is not a member of any such organization. But he does know the canebrake lullaby, and how to fry a sugar pie like nobody’s business. Plus, he loves the swamp something fierce. He’ll do anything to protect it. And if he can find a lost deSoto which may or may not contain a photo of the maybe-but-not-definitely extinct Ivory Billed Woodpecker, that'll sure help.
Well, good for that. Because Jaeger Stitch just so happens to have her eye on Sugar Man Swamp. Jaeger Stitch also just so happens to be a world-class alligator wrestler. Her plans are to turn the swamp into an Alligator World Wrestling Arena and Theme Park. Mind you, this is one alligator wrestler who is used to getting what she wants.
And, no, the troubles don't end there. There is also a gang of wild feral hogs on the march, headed straight toward them all.
The Scouts are ready. All they have to do is wake up the Sugarman. Problem is, no one's been able to wake that fellow up in a decade or four.
Wake up, Sugar Man! Wake up!
To ten-year-old Keeper, this moon is her chance to fix all that has gone wrong...and so much has gone wrong. But she knows who can make things right again: Meggie Marie, her mermaid mother who swam away when Keeper was just three. A blue moon calls the mermaids to gather at the sandbar, and that's exactly where she is headed -- in a small boat, in the middle of the night, with only her dog, BD (Best Dog), and a seagull named Captain.
When the riptide pulls at the boat, tugging her away from the shore and deep into the rough waters of the Gulf of Mexico, panic sets in, and the fairy tales that lured her out there go tumbling into the waves. Maybe the blue moon isn't magic and maybe the sandbar won't sparkle with mermaids and maybe -- Oh, no..."Maybe" is just too difficult to bear. Kathi Appelt follows up to her New York Times bestseller, The Underneath, with a tale that will pull right at your very core -- stronger than moon currents -- capturing the crash and echo of the waves and the dark magic of the ocean.
