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Swimming Against the Storm
Swimming Against the Storm | Jess Butterworth
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Heartland middle-grade adventure set in the swamps of Louisiana, perfect for fans of Katherine Rundell and Lauren St John Our land is sinking. It's disappearing into the water. And no one knows how to save it. Twelve-year-old Eliza and her sister Avery have lived their entire lives in a small fishing village on the coast of Louisiana, growing up alongside turtles, pelicans and porpoises. But now, with sea levels rising, their home is at risk of being swept away. Determined to save the land, Eliza and her younger sister Avery secretly go searching in the swamp for the dangerous, wolf-like loup-garou. If they can prove this legendary creature exists, they're sure that the government will have to protect its habitat - and their community. But there's one problem: the loup-garou has never been seen before. And with a tropical storm approaching and the sisters deep, deep in the swampland, soon it's not just their home at risk, but their lives as well...
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Swimming Against the Storm | Jess Butterworth
Mehso-so

Jess Butterworth‘s contemporary ecological thriller for children aged 9+ does a great job of evoking the strange beauty of the Louisiana bayou and how it‘s at risk from climate change while Eliza and Avery‘s relationship captures the frustrations and rivalry of having a sibling. However the plot relies on a series of foolish decisions that I didn‘t believe of two swamp kids while I thought the corporate skulduggery plot was resolved too neatly.