The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
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Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn, ancient Sugar Man, and his raccoon-brother Swamp Scouts Bingo and J'miah try to save Bayou Tourterelle from feral pigs Clydine and Buzzie, greedy Sunny Boy Beaucoup, and world-class alligator wrestler and would-be land developer Jaeger Stitch.
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fun story
submitted by camelsamba on June 19, 2014, 1:14pm
Overall, we enjoyed the story. I appreciated the sprinklings of advanced vocabulary words. I loved how the various story lines came together in the climax. And I appreciate how Chap still got the swamp, despite his noble choice to eschew the easy way. The humor and writing style made for good read-aloud (although my son occasionally asked 'does it really say that?' in response to her parentheticals). But the quick cuts between plot lines was distracting and disconcerting (chapters average 3 pages; most chapters switch POV). It took me a while to get into it, but I'm glad we stuck it out.
And it loses another star (or half) because it doesn't include a recipe for sugar pie. What is this concoction? Is it kind of like shoo-fly pie, only fried? Or something completely imaginary?
PUBLISHED
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 326 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781442421059
1442421053
SUBJECTS
Swamps -- Fiction.
Swamp animals -- Fiction.
Raccoon -- Fiction.
Scouting (Youth activity) -- Fiction.
Humorous stories.