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K-Gr 2 This portrait of a loving, nontraditional family exemplifies the adage, "Home is where the heart is." Austin and his parents are itinerant musicians who call themselves The Swamp Snakes. They travel the countryside in a kicky little sports car pulling a trailer, the only home the boy knows, and he seemingly loves performing with his parents. As the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Austin and his musician parents are nomads. Their country-western trio, the Swamp Snakes, is in a different town every week, playing to a new crowd every night, but Austin's bedtime ritual in their small trailer is a happy, reassuring constant. Each night after the Swamp Snakes finish their set, Austin drinks out of his dinosaur mug and settles down with his stuffed animals for a bedtime story. And each night he asks hopefully, "Just one more story?" But Dad sticks firmly to the one-story-a-night rule. Howev...Log In or Sign Up to Read More