The Missing Manatee: A Mystery About Fishing And Family

By: Cynthia DeFelice

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Synopsis: A tribute to Florida, fishing, and family, Cynthia DeFelice's The Missing Manatee is "Sure to hook readers." -BooklistAll Skeet Waters wants is to catch a big, beautiful tarpon on his fly rod - and to keep everything else in his life in Florida the way it's always been. But on his spring break from school, Skeet overhears his mother telling his father to move out permanently. Then, while riding in his boat to escape his parents' troubles, he discovers a manatee that's been shot in the head. Skeet puts aside his search for the manatee and its killer when Dirty Dan the Tarpon Man offers to take him out to catch his first tarpon on a fly. Because of Dan, Skeet begins to unravel the mysteries surrounding the manatee's apparent murder and his parents' dissolving marriage.Skeet discovers that life is a lot like tarpon fishing, in which you can't look just at the surface of the water - you have to look through it, at what lies beneath.The Missing Manatee was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 192 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781466893597
Related ISBNs:: 9780374312572
Publisher:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date of Addition:: 09/04/24
Copyrighted By:: Cynthia Defelice
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Children's Books, Animals, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
Grade Levels:: Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade, Seventh grade
Reading Age:: 8–12
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.