Eli and the Swamp Man
By: Charlotte Watson Sherman ; illustrated by James Ransome.
Contributors: Ransome, James, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Stepfathers -- Fiction.; Remarriage -- Fiction.; Runaways -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Resentful of his stepfather, eight-year-old Eli runs away with a plan to bike to Alaska to see his father, but a meeting with the mysterious Swamp Man helps him change his mind.