Thursday, October 2, 2014

The True Blue Scouts Of Sugar Man Swamp

The True Blue Scouts Of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt                         327 pages


This is the story of two raccoons, Bingo and J’miah, two of the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts, sworn to protect the Swamp and wake the Sugar Man if necessary.  This is also the story of Chap and his mother who are struggling to keep their café and home from their landlord, Sonny Boy Beaucoup.  Sonny Boy wants to turn the swamp into an alligator theme park and since Chap’s grandpa, Audie, died a few days ago, Sonny Boy has closed in and raised the rent so that they can’t afford to piay.  This is also the story of two wild hogs, Buzzie and Clydine, and all 15 of their children, who have decided that they have a hankering for the wild sugarcane that grows in the Sugar Man Swamp.  This means that they’ll destroy it while eating it.  This is the same sugar that Chap and his mother need to make fried sugar pies in their café.  The hogs will also terrorize and destroy other parts of the swamp while they’re there.  Bingo and J’miah really need to wake the Sugar Man.  The only problems are they don’t know where he is, he’s not easy to wake up if they find him, sometimes he wakes up cranky, and he has a pet rattlesnake, Gertrude, guarding him.  A really fun and exciting story, kids who like animal stories or mostly true-life stories with  a bit of fantasy thrown in will enjoy this book.

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