Boys Of Blur by N D Wilson
Fans of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee and Louis Sachar's Holes will enjoy this story about a boy and the ancient secrets that hide deep in the heart of the Florida everglades near a place called Muck City. When Charlie moves to the small town of Taper, Florida, he discovers a different world. Pinned between the everglades and the swampy banks of Lake Okeechobee, the small town produces sugar cane . . . and the fastest runners in the country. Kids chase muck rabbits in the fields while the cane is being burned and harvested. Dodging flames and blades and breathing smoke, they run down the rabbits for three dollars a skin. And when they can do that, running a football is easy. But there are things in the swamp, roaming the cane at night, that cannot be explained, and they seem connected to sprawling mounds older than the swamps. Together with his step-second cousin Cotton Mack, the fastest boy on the muck, Charlie hunts secrets in the glades and on the muck flats where the cane grows secrets as old as the soft earth, secrets that haunted, tripped, and trapped the original native tribes, ensnared conquistadors, and buried runaway slaves. Secrets only the muck knows.WILSON is the bestselling author of the Ashtown Burials and 100 Cupboards books. He once split his friend's arrow while shooting at a mattress from twenty yards in fourth grade. He now writes from the top of a tall, slender house with a blue-eyed girl he stole from the sea, their five young explorers, two tortoises, and one snake. This is an excerpt from the Hardcover edition.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780449816738 |
| ISBN 10 | 0449816737 |
| Title | Boys Of Blur |
| Author | N D Wilson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2014-04-08 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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