"When Nick knelt to retrieve his shoe, he glanced back down the curving boardwalk just in time to see Mrs. Starch, in her straw hat and dragonfly glasses, marching alone into the smoky swamp.
He had no idea that she wouldn't be coming out." (36)
After a field trip to the Black Vine Swamp is cut short by a fire, hated biology teacher Mrs. Starch claims a "family emergency" and disappears from school. Friends Nick and Marta don't buy that excuse though, especially when Nick's video of what he thought was an endangered Florida panther turns out to be a man lurking in the woods. While the police think that their classmate delinquent Smoke is responsible for the fire, Marta and Nick question their evidence and mount their own investigation. The swamp however, is hiding more than just Mrs. Starch, as you'll find out when you read Scat, Carl Hiaasen's newest novel.
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