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Gr 4–6—How can one person make a difference in the world? Should they watch, listen, and learn, or shout the truth at the top of their lungs? For Elsie Mae, the youngest in her family, doing "something big and important in the world" is going to involve speaking up. Elsie Mae comes from swamp people, and unlike her parents and siblings, she is most at home deep in the Okefenokee, where her grandparents and uncles pursue a traditional swamper life—hunting, fishing and living off the land and the water—a life that is now threatened by the development plans of a shipping company. As Elsie Mae prepares to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More