About this item
Fans of Sara Pennypacker and Katherine Applegate will love this thrilling environmental fable - filled with laughter, music, and adventure. There's no other place Tubs Marshfield would rather be than singing a song in his perfect little swamp along the Louisiana bayou. His music can make anyone feel happy.But something terrible is happening within the swamp that even Tubs' songs can't fix - and it's making his neighbors feel sick! No one knows what to do, least of all Tubs.A mysterious prophecy may hold the key ... or send Tubs away from his friends forever.
About the Author
Cara Hoffman is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Running (a New York Times Editor's Choice) , Be Safe I Love You (nominated for a Folio Prize) and So Much Pretty (New York Times Best Suspense Novel of 2011) . She has written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, The Paris Review, and National Public Radio, among others, and has been a visiting writer at University of Oxford. She lives in Manhattan and teaches at the Stonecoast MFA program at University of Southern Maine.
