Gretchen and her stepbrother Clark's creepy trip to their grandparents' place--which lies in the middle of a swamp--gets even scarier when growling noises start coming from the room that is always locked.
In Mary's Cove, Tennessee, in 1869, twelve-year-old Gnat Stokes decides to prove she's not just a trouble maker by rescuing a boy who was spirited away seven years earlier by the evil Swamp Queen of Foggy Bottom.
Brothers Sandy and Jack Casperin flee from their abusive father into the remote swamplands of the Florida Keys, and after they learn how to survive on their own amongst the dangerous wildlife, they encounter a young girl and an old sailor who teach them how to begin anew.
The ten-year-old Shluffmuffins twins, still evading the evil, giant ants that tried to adopt them, discover the culinary delights of swamps and encounter a zombie who bears a strange resemblance to their deceased father.
Ten-year-old orphan twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffins have a hard time at Cincinnati's Jolly Days orphanage, but things get much worse when the Mandible sisters offer to share their home in the Dripping Fang Forest.
Frederick, a snobbish raccoon and self-proclaimed prince of the garbage dump, discovers the value of friendship when two ferocious dogs drive him out of his palace and into the swamp home of two wild raccoons.