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The missing manatee /
Author DeFelice, Cynthia C.
Call Number jFIC DEF
Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Subject Boats and boating -- Fiction.
Fishing stories
Problem families -- Fiction.
Manatees -- Fiction.
Juvenile literature.
Florida -- Fiction.
Title Statement The missing manatee / Cynthia DeFelice.
Edition 1st ed.
Description 181 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary All 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.
Awards Notes Young Hoosier Book Award, 2007-2008, 6-8 Nominee
A Junior Library Guild selection.
ISBN 0374312575 (hardcover) :
LCCN 2004050633
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Bib No. 1001581
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