Scat

Scat

by Carl Hiaasen

reviewed by Alma Ubrano

Knopf

371 pages

Scat is about the endangered Florida Panther. A teacher, Mrs. Starch and her students go to a field trip to Black Vine Swamp. two of the students, Nick and Marta, start recording the trip after hearing a strange sound. After a wild fire starts the teacher goes to find the inhaler for Libby, another one of the students. Something happens and the students haven't seen their teacher, not even the next day, so the students are asked questions by detectives. They begin to think it's a student named Duane, since he has a record of pyromania. They find notes by Mrs. Starch saying she left for a family emergency, but they don't believe it since no family is listed on her paperwork. Nick and Marta got o her house and they figure that there are panthers in the swamp and that the Diamond energy Company has been drilling holes for oil, they eventually team up with the teacher and two other students by the names of Twilly and Smoke to save the panthers and get the Diamond Energy Company arrested.

This book I would recommend to people who like a little bit of mystery. The book makes you wonder a lot and makes you question many things that happen throughout the book. It's a book that makes you think and it gets you to try and figure out things while they're happening in the book.