Shannon's Review - Scat by Carl Hiaasen

Title:: Scat
Series:: None
Author(s):: Carl Hiaasen
Genre:: Children's Book
Summary: Teacher goes missing, and two students try to solve the mysteries surrounding her.
Finished: 02/21/09
Pages: 304
Challenges: 20 Books in 2009(16)
Rating:









My Thoughts: This is the first book I've read by Carl Hiaasen, and I have to say I was not impressed. I liked some things in the book. For example the character Twilly, who apparently appears in one of Hiaasen's adult mystery books. I liked the character because he was smart, quiet and knew what he wanted out of life. I also enjoyed the side story about Nick and his father, who came back from the war in Iraq. You do not see books for children talking about the war that often, and I thought Hiaasen did well with the subject. But even though I felt the book had good funny parts and serious parts, the main story was too predictable.


About the Author: Carl Hiaasen is the author of many mystery novels, a few non-fiction books and 3 children's novels. He has had a few of his books made into movies, including Hoot and Strip Tease.

New Signed Book Giveaway - Scat by Carl Hiaasen

Scat

That right if you were keeping track of the Twittering and tried to guess what the book is you would have figured out that Paradox guessed right. The new signed book giveaway is SCAT by CARL HIAASEN.

Carl Hiaasen also the the author of the children books Hoot and Flush. He also the author of quite a few adult mysteries.

His new book Scat is a children's mystery. Here's about the book from Carl Hiaasen's official website

"Mrs. Starch – fearsome biology teacher – never returned from a field trip to Black Vine Swamp.

The principal says she was called away on a 'family emergency,' but Nick and Marta don't buy it. They think Smoke, the class delinquent, has something to do with her disappearance.

And he does! But not in the way that they think. There's a lot more going on in Black Vine Swamp than any one player in this twisted tale can see. And Nick and Marta will have to reckon with an eccentric eco-avenger, a stuffed rat named Chelsea, a wannabe Texas oilman, a singing substitute teacher, and a ticked-off Florida panther before they'll really begin to see the big picture. "

That's life in the swamp, kids."

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