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After building his own canoe, fourteen-year-old Jack Hawkins goes to try it out in his beloved Okefenokee Swamp, where an accident tests his survival skills and leads him to a shocking discovery.

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Main Author:	George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012
Other Authors:	Landrum, Nathan (Narrator)
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	Prince Frederic, MD : Recorded Books, p2003.
Subjects:	Survival > Juvenile fiction. Twins > Juvenile fiction. Brothers > Juvenile fiction. Children's audiobooks. Okefenokee Swamp (Ga. and Fla.) > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	After building his own canoe, fourteen-year-old Jack Hawkins goes to try it out in his beloved Okefenokee Swamp, where an accident tests his survival skills and leads him to a shocking discovery.
Item Description:	Unabridged.
Physical Description:	5 sound discs (ca. 5 1/2 hr.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:	1402565852
Author Notes:	Jean Craighead George was born on July 2, 1919 in Washington, D.C. She received degrees in English and science from Pennsylvania State University. She began her career as a reporter for the International News Service. In the 1940s she was a member of the White House press corps for The Washington Post. During her lifetime, she wrote over 100 novels including My Side of the Mountain, which was a 1960 Newbery Honor Book, On the Far Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves, which won the Newbery Medal, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack. She also wrote two guides to cooking with wild foods and an autobiography entitled Journey Inward. In 1991, she became the first winner of the School Library Media Section of the New York Library Association's Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature. She died on May 15, 2012 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography)