Tree Castle Island

With a handmade canoe called L'tle Possum, Jack Hawkins sets out on a solo adventure in the wilds of the Okefenokee Swamp in search of the mythical Paradise Island. He never finds Paradise Island, but he does stumble across some very unusual mysteries:

- A "here-again, gone-again" Airedale named Dizzy, just like his own dog back home
- A mamma bear sitting dead under a tree
- An abandoned raft, a basket, and a porcelain plate
- The repeating leeri leeri of an eerie swamp monster

Are these things real or the doings of a swamp poltergeist? And then there's one final discovery that will leave Jack reeling as he is forced to question the truths of his own past . . . and the possibilities of the world he left behind.

In the tradition of her great classics for children—JULIE OF THE WOLVES and MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN—Jean Craighead George has created an adventure story that is filled with the captivating details of survival and the beauties of a natural world made for exploration and self-discovery.