Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhatan Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge, in North Carolina. Chip Clewt, known simply as the weirdo, lives like a hermit in the Powhatan Swamp. A hunting ban on the Powhatan is about to expire and the environmentalists want to protect the wildlife but the hunters are ready to go. Then someone completely unexpected comes forward to spearhead the conservation effort--the weirdo.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 292 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Houghton Mifflin .

Theodore Taylor III is an artist, designer, and photographer. He is the winner of the John Steptoe Award for New Talent for his work in When the Beat Was Born . He lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his wife and their very own woke baby.