Emma

In the marshes of a faraway land where kind people live on small islands surrounded by grassy rivers where fathers tell wild stories of heroes that braved the wild untamed waters saying that Full-grown man have been eaten whole by the vicious alligators. The mightiest of the villages Warriors have been crippled by the smallest bite of a taipan snake.  Poisonous frogs lay eggs in the grassy waters. Ready to come out and poison the first thing it feels. Bugs and beetles of all sorts make their homes in the soft mud around the rivers. Hornets make their nest in the branches of the low-lying trees hanging precariously over the water. Izzy is a small girl of twelve years from the village of Ichetucknee and has always believed the tales her father told her of the mighty heroes that have fallen because of the wicked shallows of the waters surrounding her home. Her own father almost perished from the menacing stings of hornets. There were so many bites on him that the healers did no