Charla Swann

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Charla Swann
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Charla Swann is a fictitious character in the Island series by American author Gordon Korman. Charla is an exercise addict; her family lives in Detroit and her dad works three jobs just to pay for her sports, however nothing about her mother is stated, we never even hear if her mother is living or dead, or if she's married to Charla's father at all. She is dedicated to over fifteen sports and aims for the Olympics to be able to earn money for her family. With her fit and athletic body, she is able to scale places the others can't, usually serving as a lookout atop trees, scaling them to get fruit, or using her lightning quick reflexes to grab fish with her bare hands. In book two Luke finds a newspaper with an article about the castaways with everyone's city and state they reside in, it is revealed Charla lives in Detroit, Michigan. Other than J.J., she is the only castaway that lives in a "famous city", ie., one that is better known than the others.