Kudzu Cradle & the Forgotten Creature of Lowcountry

It's a summer that begins in heartbreak-but might just end up in magic Ten-year-old Kudzu Cradle has never had much of anything permanent in her life--except her blankie, and maybe her broken Swiss Army knife... Kudzu thought things were going to be different around here now, and maybe that's why this unexpected news hurts so bad: Once again, she's being sent away.Being torn from the only family she's ever trusted, Kudzu is relocated to the shadowy island of Nulle Part. It's a place whispered about in school hallways and shrouded in Lowcountry legend. Some say the old hotel is haunted...others say a scary creature lurks out in the marsh. But what Kudzu finds is far stranger than anything she could've imagined. After arriving at Sue Sue's abandoned hotel, Kudzu discovers the island is really a gateway to another world... outside of time and where all things are possible.... a strange world filled with pirates, dancing hogs, and a forgotten creature. One with the power to change everything! It's is a world Kudzu was always meant to be a part of....she just didn't know it.This is a tender coming-of age story about finding our roots, the wish we all have to be a part of something, and the overwhelming desire just to feel wanted.