The Missing Manatee: A Mystery about Fishing and Family (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374400200)

A tribute to Florida, fishing, and family

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.

The Missing Manatee is a nominee for the 2006 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery.

Author: Cynthia C. DeFelice
ISBN-10: 0374400202
ISBN-13: 9780374400200
Publisher: Square Fish
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.64h x 5.17w x 0.48d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 86251 / Missing Manatee