VVMBookBlog » Florida panther http://vvmsmedia.edublogs.org Books, Internet and other windows to the world! Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:49:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Scat by Carl Hiaasen http://vvmsmedia.edublogs.org/2009/03/09/scat-by-carl-hiaasen/ http://vvmsmedia.edublogs.org/2009/03/09/scat-by-carl-hiaasen/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:46:19 +0000 Mary Childs http://vvmsmedia.edublogs.org/?p=463 First there was Hoot, then Flush and now we have Scat!  Maybe because it’s been a couple years since Flush, but I think Scat is my favorite Carl Hiaasen book so far.  Again there’s an environmental scare–this time it’s a sighting of a very rare Florida panther in the Everglades.  And again there is the greedy business–this time an oil company wanting to drill an illegal oil pipeline on protected state property NEXT to their own oil-less property.

There are many heroes in this story, most very surprising so I can’t tell you who they are here.  I can say that very-scary Biology teacher, Mrs. Bunny Starch, takes her class, including good guys Nick and Marta, to the Black Vine Swamp and ends up disappearing very mysteriously.  While on the field trip, Nick is on the lookout for a panther, but then the trip is cut short by a wildfire of mysterious origin that scares them all back to the buses. And where is Duane Scrod, Jr., aka “Smoke,” whose last class interaction with Mrs. Starch ended badly!

So many great characters in this story, and lots of good side stories to keep you reading and wondering how it’s all going to turn out.  Hoot, Flush, Scat…what will come next?

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