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'Swimming Against the Storm' - A Learning Lounge Gift

The Learning Lounge loves meeting their brand new cohort of year 7 readers! To celebrate their arrival we have gifted every Year 7 student with a copy of 'Swimming Against the Storm' by Jess Butterworth. Jess should hopefully be visiting Year 7 during the summer term of 2020. In the meantime, be prepared to go on a wild and wonderful adventure with Eliza as she takes you on a journey through the Louisianan Wetlands. As you read the novel don't forget to answer the questions on your companion worksheet. You can pick up a worksheet from the LL. All completed worksheets will be entered into a competition where there are great prizes to be won.

Have a fantastic first year at Toot Hill School and we hope you love the book as much as we did!

Swimming Against the Storm by Jess Butterworth

An adventure story set in the swamplands of Louisiana about sisters, rising sea-levels and saving the environment, 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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