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Scat By Carl Hiaasen
Scat is a fun to read mystery book by Carl Hiaasen about two teenage kids: Nick and Marta. One day the meanest teacher at Truman school goes missing after an unfortunate field trip at black vine swamp. Nick and Marta are determined to find her. Along the way they meet Twilly, who helps them solve the mystery.
In the book Scat, Carl Hiaasen wants to send a message that people can change. Smoke started out as the kid who nobody wanted to mess with. He never did his homework, and he was a huge slacker. Toward the end of the book, he was always clean and tidy. He never missed an assignment and followed the rules. Another message in this book may be that you can’t judge a book by it's cover. At first, Martha and Nick thought Twilly was a bad guy
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