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Enchanted Everglades: Friend for Life
Paperback
Series: Enchanted Everglades, Book 1
ISBN13: 9781733518420
Publisher: Great Rays, LLC
Published: Aug 28 2020
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
With its imaginative tapestry of adventurous humans, anthropomorphized creatures, and well-paced action, Enchanted Everglades will please middle-grade readers. But its poignant lessons could also draw teachers or mentors interested in sharing the importance of finding peace within both nature and ourselves. BlueInk Review, starred review
Tween readers (and their parents and teachers) will love the values, hardships, laughs, and learning in Kowatch's thoughtful adventure fantasy. Booklife Reviews
Enchanted Everglades wraps positive lessons about friendship, being yourself, and ecological awareness into its entertaining adventure.
Foreword Clarion Reviews
Readers who enjoy a blend of realism and fantasy are sure to be drawn to this adventurous story of loss, forgiveness, and mindfulness.
The Children's Book Review
The rich descriptions of wildlife ecosystems make this book worth reading by all audiences . . . the action does have a cartoonish, made-for-TV feel that makes it most suitable for middle-grade readers. Kirkus Review
Twelve-year-old OCEAN RIVER is a goofy kid. He's never met a problem he couldn't solve with a joke or a silly dance. When his best friend, ELLEN HANSEN, loses her father, life suddenly gets a lot more serious, and Ocean's immature antics at the funeral threaten to ruin their friendship forever.
Just a few miles away, in the swampy jungle of the Everglades, another young boy named GUMBO struggles with his born destiny. This boy just happens to be an alligator, the heir to the great gator kingdom. Not only is Gumbo reluctant to be a leader, but his father, the king, has ordered him to kill several pythons by the next day. The problem is Gumbo's a pacifist. And a vegan. And, oh, deathly afraid of snakes.
Gumbo and his best friends, BIX, a naïve, cheerful soft-shelled turtle, and their guru, ASHA, a wise old wood stork who's teaching Gumbo yoga, reluctantly set off on their mission. Meanwhile, the humans are on a mission of their own: a family vacation to the Everglades, Ellen's belated birthday gift, holds the hope of saving Ocean and Ellen's friendship. When a tour boat crash leaves the kids lost and alone in the gator-infested swamp, they receive animal superpowers from a legendary Seminole Indian ghost. Now they can talk to animals, including Gumbo, and it seems like getting lost together was just what they needed.
Except, of course, for the giant mutant python who has serious plans for dinner . . . and revenge.
In this funny and heartwarming fantasy set in the fragile ecosystems of the Everglades, Ocean and Ellen and their new animal friends learn how to let go of the past and trust each other in the present, where forgiveness and empathy-even for killer pythons-might just save the day.
Please visit EnchantedEverglades website to read and listen to five chapters before you purchase. Thank you.
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