The Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia is unlikely place for anyone, much less a city girl, to go on a summer vacation. Tabitha braves the brain, to spend the time with her father, a professor and Swampmaster. Tabby makes friends with Mable, a real "Swamp thing" of a woman who learns her more about life than any city ever could. Through a ravenous wildfire and a killer hurricane, Tabby helps her father and Aunt Mable solve the mystery of why someone is trying to lay claim to Mable's homestead in the swamp.

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