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The missing 'gator of Gumbo Limbo : an ecological mystery / Jean Craighead George.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 1842
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alligators--Juvenile fiction.
- Alligators.
- Wildlife conservation--Juvenile fiction.
- Wildlife conservation.
- Ecology--Juvenile fiction.
- Ecology.
- Homeless persons--Juvenile fiction.
- Homeless persons.
- Florida--Juvenile fiction.
- Florida.
- Alligators--Fiction.
- Wildlife conservation--Fiction.
- Ecology--Fiction.
- Florida--Fiction.
- Homeless persons--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : HarperCollins, 1992.
- Summary:
- Sixth-grader Liza K., one of five homeless people living in an unspoiled forest in southern Florida, searches for a missing alligator destined for official extermination and studies the delicate ecological balance keeping her outdoor home beautiful.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has two leaves of reviews of this work (from Amazon.com website) laid in.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 006020396X
- 9780060203962
- 0060203978
- 9780060203979
- OCLC:
- 23975169
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